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.

• evidence of prior difficulties between defendant and victim admissible to show motive, intent, and bent of mind
• counsel’s consent to giving of instructions before closing argument barred complaint on appeal that trial court failed to comply with OCGA § 5-5-24 (b)
• in assessing impact of pre-trial publicity on jury, no prejudice was shown on account of trial counsel’s failure to seek a change of venue where among other things, record did not demonstrate publicity was incorrect or inflammatory
• “Since an appellant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must show both deficient performance and actual prejudice stemming from that deficiency, an insufficient showing on either of these prongs relieves the reviewing court of the need to address the other prong.”
• gun ownership alone does not impute bad character
• gun ownership alone does not impute bad character

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-04· cited 67×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 56×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• Nicely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 39×
• Character v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 33×
• Robbins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-20· cited 32×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 30×
• Walker v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 27×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 24×
• Zellars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 23×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-06· cited 23×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 22×
• Warner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 21×
• Ferrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-18· cited 21×
• Johnson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 20×
• Holloman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 20×
• Bunkley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-24· cited 19×
• Lake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-20· cited 19×

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×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 102×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-09-17· cited 68×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 49×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-27· cited 46×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 41×
• Rickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 40×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 35×
• Blalock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-04· cited 33×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 32×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 24×
• Griffith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-07-05· cited 24×
• McConnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-21· cited 18×
• Primas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-01· cited 17×
• Cain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 15×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 12×