Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[B]ecause currently existing legal authority stands for the contrary position, 10 the alleged error must be considered subject to reasonable dispute and thus cannot constitute plain error.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]here exists no magic amount of time which counsel must spend in actual conference with his client, and [the appellant] does not specifically describe how additional communications with his lawyer would have enhanced his defense.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “As to the second part of the test, an error is plain if it is clear or obvious under current law. An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority on point or if a defendant’s theory requires the extension of precedent.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “As to the second part of the test, an error is plain if it is clear or obvious under current law. An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority on point or if a defendant’s theory requires the extension of precedent.” (citations and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• MUSE v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 27×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 6×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-13· cited 4×
• Remler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 1×
• Emmanuel Rakestraw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-07
• Nicholas Ashley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-24
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Jeremy Christopher Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-03
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• McFarland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-05
• Shoffner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

58 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×
• Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-23· cited 1,225×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• United States v. Juan Baptista-Rodriguez, Ramon Calvo, and Julio R. Diaz
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-04-01· cited 214×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• State v. Almanza
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 98×
• United States v. Adams
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-11-27· cited 97×
• United States v. Ivan Curbelo
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-08-09· cited 77×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Phillips v. Harmon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 59×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Annette Rush, as Natural Mother of Johnathan Rush, a Minor v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, AKA Canadian National-Illinois Central Railroad
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-03-04· cited 52×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Frederick v. Swift Transportation Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-08-10· cited 42×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 36×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 29×