Arnold v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “There are countless ways to provide effective assistance in any given case. Even the best criminal defense attorneys would not defend a particular client in the same way.”
• no prejudice from failure to request mental health evaluation where psychologist who testified at the motion for new trial hearing could not give an opinion as to whether defendant was suffering from mental health issues at the time of the offense
• no prejudice where the defendant did not show what the result of any additional mental health examination would have been, and thus failed to establish prejudice by showing that the result of his trial would have been different if such a psychological examination was pursued
• no prejudice from failure to request mental health evaluation where psychologist who testified at the motion for new trial hearing could not give an opinion as to whether defendant was suffering from mental health issues at the time of the offense
• “There are countless ways to provide effective assistance in any given case. Even the best criminal defense attorneys would not 3 The family friend would not agree to speak with him prior to trial. 10 defend a particular client in the same way.”
• no prejudice where the defendant did not show what the result of any additional mental health examination would have been, and thus failed to establish prejudice by showing that the result of his trial would have been different if such a psychological examination was pursued

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 73×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 32×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 31×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-19· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 25×
• Hurt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 23×
• Castaneira v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-26· cited 22×
• Revere v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 21×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×
• Valentine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 18×
• Maurer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-21· cited 18×
• Gilmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18· cited 16×
• Blackmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 16×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 16×
• Blount v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 14×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 13×
• Causey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-21· cited 13×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Shank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 63×
• Devega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 56×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 51×
• Martin v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 31×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 21×
• Whitus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 19×
• McKiernan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 16×
• Futch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 15×
• Hambrick v. Brannen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 12×
• Thrasher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-15· cited 10×