Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he decision not to request a jury charge on a lesser included offense in order to pursue an ‘all-or-nothing’ defense is a matter of trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 73×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 44×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 22×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 21×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 12×
• Hafeez v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-15· cited 10×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 7×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Herrington v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 5×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 5×
• CLARK v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-26· cited 4×
• Finnissee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 4×

Cites

18 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×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Jimmy Dill v. Richard F. Allen
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-06-13· cited 53×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 39×
• Williamson v. Moore
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-08-08· cited 35×
• Humphrey v. Nance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 23×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 21×
• McKee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 18×
• Lattimer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-25· cited 16×
• Inman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 16×
• Arthur v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 15×
• Hunt v. Commissioner, Alabama Dept. of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-01-05· cited 14×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-07· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-10· cited 11×