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← 262 Ga. App. 698 - Williams v. State

262 Ga. App. 698 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Suggs v. State · Fults v. State · Mitchell v. State · 244 Ga. App. 191 - Banks v. State

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Decisions as to which charges will be requested and when they will be requested fall within the realm of trial tactics and strategy. They provide no grounds for reversal unless such tactical decisions are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]n the absence of testimony to the contrary, counsel's actions are presumed strategic.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.