Whittaker 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 in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim that a hospitalized defendant was not in custody for Miranda purposes where he was being treated for injuries, there was no evidence that he was restrained, and he was not isolated
• counsel does not perform deficiently by failing to request a 18 jury instruction that is not supported by the evidence
• evidence sufficient to support malice murder conviction when defendant stabbed victim 50 times and strangled him, because defendant’s “brutal and excessive actions . . . support[ed] the jury’s finding of the requisite malice and intent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 13×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 4×
• Rana v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Jatony Dupree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-20
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Gravitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Travis Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-05
• Welsch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-21

Cites

41 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 59×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 51×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Hoffler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 41×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 38×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 35×
• Manner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 32×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Buttram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 30×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 30×
• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×