285 Ga. App. 4 - Herrington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Dickens v. State · 273 Ga. App. 143 - Duvall v. State · 283 Ga. App. 1 - Goldstein v. State · 243 Ga. App. 388 - Cowan 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure of trial counsel to employ evidence cannot be deemed to be prejudicial in the absence of a showing that such evidence would have been relevant and favorable to the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because [Mims] neither called [Farrar] to testify at the motion for new trial hearing nor presented a legally acceptable substitute for [Farrar’s] direct testimony so as to substantiate [Mims’s] claim that [Farrar’s] testimony would have been relevant and favorable to [his] defense, it was impossible for [Mims] to show there is a reasonable probability the results of the proceedings would have been different. 9”
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.