Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining there was no plain error where it was “not probable that the jury would have reached a different verdict had it not heard [the challenged evidence]”
• counsel is not deficient for failing to make a meritless objection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Almanza
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 98×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×
• Blackmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 24×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 23×
• Hightower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 15×
• JACKSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 15×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 13×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 12×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 11×
• MARTIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 11×
• Starks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 7×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 7×
• Volkova v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 5×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 1×
• Bowen, Warden v. Noel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 1×
• Ruben Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-04
• Rodger Scales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Jeffery Bully v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-11-17
• Humphrey Semo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• United States v. Jiminez
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-04-07· cited 267×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• Billings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 58×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Bly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 30×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 16×