296 Ga. App. 427 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Suggs v. State · Stansell v. State · Austin v. Carter · Marshall v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] reasonable tactic that backfires does not necessarily constitute deficient performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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