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.

• “Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failure to make a futile or meritless objection.”
• \Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failure to make a futile or meritless objection.\
• “Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failure to make a futile or meritless objection.”
• “Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failure to make a futile or meritless objection.”
• “Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failure to make a futile or meritless objection.”
• police officer’s testimony that he knew the victim was not lying was improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-12-01· cited 48×
• Hatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 44×
• DAMEROW v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-06· cited 38×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28· cited 31×
• Stillwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-06· cited 23×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-07· cited 13×
• Hubert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 12×
• Sullivan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-12· cited 11×
• Purvis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-20· cited 9×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-22· cited 9×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-15· cited 7×
• Romani v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-23· cited 7×
• McCowan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 6×
• Conn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-23· cited 5×
• Wadley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-12· cited 3×
• Scruggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-13· cited 1×
• Timothy Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-07
• Vincent Wadley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-12
• Larry Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28

Cites

27 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×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Gregg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 141×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-04· cited 67×
• McClarity v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-24· cited 57×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 54×
• Whiteley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-15· cited 39×
• Boyt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-10· cited 34×
• Robbins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-20· cited 32×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-12· cited 31×
• Howell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-08· cited 22×
• Starr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-03· cited 21×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-10-29· cited 21×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-14· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-02· cited 16×
• Bridgers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-27· cited 11×
• McRae v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-31· cited 10×
• Deal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-19· cited 9×