Watts 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 trial counsel’s decision to elicit evidence to challenge a witness’s credibility through a means other than cross-examination was not objectively unreasonable where cross-examination might highlight evidence negative to the defense
• reasonable strategy not to impeach witness with variation in testimony when other avenue of cross- examination could have been more effective

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• KIRKLAND v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 5×
• Jeffrey Howard Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-04-20
• Ealey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Sanchez Waller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-26

Cites

11 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×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Linson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 53×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 46×