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.

• no showing of prejudice where appellate counsel failed to call witnesses who were other potential suspects to testify on motion for new trial
• Counsel’s strategic decisions, such as which witnesses to present, “do not amount to deficient performance unless they are so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made them under similar circumstances”
• “[T]he extent of cross-examination [is a matter] of trial strategy and tactics, and such strategic and tactical decisions do not amount to deficient performance unless they are so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made them under similar circumstances.”
• “As we have explained, when trial counsel does not testify at the motion for new trial hearing about the subject, it is extremely difficult to overcome the presumption that his conduct was reasonable.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 38×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 27×
• Geiger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 24×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 22×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 20×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Wimberly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 17×
• Faulkner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-19· cited 16×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 12×
• Rodriguez-Nova v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 11×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 7×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 5×
• Alexander v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 4×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19· cited 4×
• The State v. Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 3×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 2×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12

Cites

22 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Hanifa v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 157×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 52×
• 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×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-13· cited 28×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 26×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 23×
• Blevins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 22×
• Knowles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 17×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-10· cited 13×
• Garrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-21· cited 12×