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.

• explaining that a witness’s veracity may be affirmatively attacked by questions on cross-examination “eliciting inconsistencies between his testimony at trial and his previous statement,” even if the witness is not directly accused of lying
• rejecting ineffective assistance claim based on failure to impeach with prior convictions because trial court would not have abused discretion in denying use of convictions
• rejecting ineffective assistance claim based on failure to impeach with prior convictions 11 because trial court would not have abused discretion in denying use of convictions
• finding defendant failed to show that he was prejudiced by trial counsel’s failure to object to alleged hearsay testimony, even if the failure constituted deficient performance, because the testimony was cumulative of other testimony and evidence
• no prejudice from trial counsel’s mistake of fact in opening statement when trial court instructed jury that opening statements are not evidence
• counsel’s decision not to request instruction on self-defense was not deficient performance where the instruction was inconsistent with the defense theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Lockhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 44×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Walker v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 27×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-20· cited 20×
• Walters v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 18×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 16×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 16×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 15×
• JACKSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 15×
• Flannigan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 14×
• Leopold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-07· cited 14×
• Leanos v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 13×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-21· cited 10×
• Sneed v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-07· cited 6×
• Watkins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-14· cited 6×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 5×
• Barlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×

Cites

53 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• State v. Vogleson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 71×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 64×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-26· cited 51×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-09· cited 43×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 40×
• Hodo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 39×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Burton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 38×
• DAMEROW v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-06· cited 38×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 29×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 29×
• Muller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 28×