Anthony v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[w]ith respect to closing argument, defense counsel is permitted wide latitude” and is not ineffective simply because another attorney might have made a different choice
• explaining, in the context of an ineffective assistance claim, that the trial court was authorized to implicitly credit trial counsel’s testimony at the motion-for-new-trial hearing over the appellant’s contradictory testimony
• in the absence of explicit credibility findings by the trial court, we presume implicit findings were made supporting the trial court’s decision
• “[c]ounsel’s strategic choice to concede guilt . . . is not impeded by any blanket rule demanding the defendant’s explicit consent”
• “We note that because no convictions were entered on Anthony’s felony murder charges, his ineffective assistance claims are moot to the extent they pertain to the portions of trial counsel’s closing argument that reference felony murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 19×
• Moulder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 13×
• TABOR v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 11×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 10×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Vendrel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Steen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 2×
• CARDINAL HEALTH INC. v. JOSEPH POPPELL (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-04· cited 1×
• Terrio Pass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-10-08
• Kmesha Latesh Holley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-09
• Jonathan George Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-14
• Charles Keith Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-20
• Desmond Legrant Staley, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-15
• Padgett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Jonathan Burnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-28
• Gregory Wilkey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-20

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Florida v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 963×
• McCoy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2018-05-14· cited 738×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Favors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 73×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Muller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 28×
• Lynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 23×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 17×
• Darville v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 16×
• State v. Goff
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 11×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 9×
• Styles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 6×