Washington v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a direct appeal is available if the trial court grants permission to file an out-of-time motion for new trial before denying the previously untimely motion on its merits
• kidnapping with bodily injury and malice murder do not merge as a matter of law
• “The manner in which an attorney attacks the credibility of a witness falls within the ambit of trial tactics”
• appellate court will uphold trial court’s findings of fact on claim of ineffective assistance of counsel unless findings are clearly erroneous
• “The manner in which an attorney attacks the credibility of a witness falls within the ambit of trial tactics.”
• manner in which an attorney attacks the credibility of a witness falls within ambit of trial tactics

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

96 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 142×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 77×
• Davis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-18· cited 59×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Fowler Properties, Inc. v. Dowland
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 42×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 36×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 34×
• Pounds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 33×
• Rakestrau v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 32×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-04-29· cited 31×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 25×
• Glidewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-27· cited 25×
• Bales v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 23×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-09· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-27· cited 20×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 19×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-24· cited 927×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Balkcom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-15· cited 158×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×
• Wilson v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-21· cited 132×
• Pryor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-27· cited 128×
• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 69×
• High v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 56×
• Stansell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 53×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 44×
• High v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 34×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 31×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 28×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 27×
• Callendar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 26×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-16· cited 20×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 20×