Wright 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 the “decision not to object [to a police officer’s passing reference to the defendant’s post-arrest silence] was a valid exercise of professional judgment”
• “All strategies and tactical decisions are the exclusive province of the lawyer after consultation with his client. Such decisions rarely qualify as grounds for a finding of ineffectiveness.”
• trial counsel’s decision not to object to a passing reference to defendant’s post-arrest silence “was a valid exercise of professional judgment” where counsel testified that an objection would “focus the jury’s attention” on the testimony
• court forbade those wearing T-shirts from entering courtroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Roebuck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 49×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 28×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-20· cited 25×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 24×
• Lynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 23×
• Tennyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 19×
• Sparks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 19×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×
• Lawton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-24· cited 17×
• Lay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 15×
• State v. Haynie
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2024-08-16· cited 15×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-30· cited 14×
• Weathersby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-24· cited 12×
• Walker v. Houston
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 10×
• Cummings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-15· cited 10×
• Forde v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-28· cited 10×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-08· cited 8×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-11· cited 6×
• Brogdon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-24· cited 3×

Cites

20 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×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 98×
• Cape v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-08· cited 79×
• Austin v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 56×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 49×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 48×
• Ruffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-29· cited 47×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-10· cited 46×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 41×
• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-04· cited 39×
• Herndon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-12· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-12-05· cited 33×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-02· cited 29×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 23×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-22· cited 21×
• Stephenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-29· cited 10×