312 Ga. App. 97 - Sledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Stanley v. Kemp · Smith v. Francis · Earnest v. State · Head v. Hill
Most-quoted passages
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“When a defendant’s complaint relates to tactical judgments made by . . . trial counsel in the absence of a showing, and there is none in the present case, that the trial counsel’s loyalty, integrity or best use of his ability is questioned, a new trial will not be granted on the ground that the defendant was not afforded competent representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murrell v. State“trial tactics and strategy, no matter how mistaken in hindsight, are almost never adequate grounds for finding trial counsel ineffective unless they are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.”
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.