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.

• holding that counsel did not provide ineffective assistance based on his failure to have voir dire, opening, or closing transcribed when defendant did not assert that anything harmful or prejudicial occurred during those portions of the trial
• declining to review under the plain error rule the admission of certain hearsay statements not objected to at trial because defendant failed to demonstrate how the statements' admission seriously affected the fairness, integrity and public reputation of the trial
• declining to review under the plain error rule the admission of certain hearsay statements not objected to at trial because defendant failed to demonstrate how the statements’ admission seriously affected the fairness, integrity and public reputation of the trial
• conviction based on circumstantial evidence is authorized where evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis but for that of defendant’s guilt
• It was not error to charge the jury: “you will both determine the law and the facts.” (punctuation omitted)
• where nothing occurred during voir dire, opening or closing, appellant failed to sustain ineffective assistance of counsel claim for failure to transcribe those portions of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 43×
• 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×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 32×
• Tyner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-13· cited 28×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 25×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 24×
• Bragg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×
• Whorton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-29· cited 20×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 19×
• Walden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 18×
• London v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-08· cited 17×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 15×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 12×
• Mealor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-10· cited 9×
• Lockwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 4×
• WINN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-21· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-14· cited 2×

Cites

11 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×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-27· cited 39×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-25· cited 27×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-17· cited 19×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 17×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 16×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-16· cited 8×