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.

• following defendant’s oral waiver of rights, his refusal to sign written waiver did not invoke right to counsel
• applying harmless error analysis where testimony violated a defendant’s attorney-client privilege
• applying harmless error analysis where testimony violated a defendant's attorney-client privilege
• blacks constituted one-third of petit jury but only one-fourth of panel; no prima facie case
• in direct appeal of death penalty case considering ineffectiveness of counsel
• officer’s testimony that defendant discussed crime during police interview and that interview ended when the defendant invoked his right to counsel did not constitute an improper comment on the defendant’s right to remain silent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 75×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• State v. Dominguez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1993-03-19· cited 64×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-15· cited 63×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 59×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-14· cited 58×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-29· cited 54×
• Gulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-08· cited 53×
• Franks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 52×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 51×
• Bowley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-09· cited 48×
• Williams v. Turpin
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-06-24· cited 47×
• Head v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 47×

Cites

40 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×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 129×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 113×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 92×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 92×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-07· cited 90×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-24· cited 90×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-24· cited 82×