Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, under plain-error review, “[t]he current law considered is the law at the time of appellate review rather than at trial”
• concluding that the 2 appellant forfeited his ineffectiveness claim because he failed to raise it in his amended motions for new trial, even though he was no longer represented by trial counsel, and the trial court did not rule on such a claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• EVANS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Marlo Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-27
• GINES v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-12
• FLAKES v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03

Cites

47 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-23· cited 1,225×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• Smith v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2024-06-21· cited 115×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 79×
• United States v. Ben Bane
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-06-28· cited 74×
• State v. Herrera-Bustamante
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 58×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×