Clark v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no prejudice from counsel’s failure to impeach witness with felony convictions, given that counsel impeached witness in other ways, witness’s account was similar to that of another witness, and any differences in the account may have been beneficial to the defendant
• where evidence showed that defendant and victim were in a physical “‘tug-of-war’” without any serious threat of harm, finder of fact authorized to conclude that defendant did not rea- sonably believe that deadly force was necessary to end the en- counter under the circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 33×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Blocker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 25×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 20×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 12×
• MARTIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 11×
• Reddick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• Chambliss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 3×
• Charles Lee Pennington, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-04-03
• Darius Rashun Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-05-12
• Telly McNeal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-05
• Padgett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Barry Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-01-21
• Ruben Alvarado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-07
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-03
• Senior v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-03
• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

26 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 65×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×
• Kemp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 52×
• KEMP v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 50×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-22· cited 40×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Eller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 30×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 25×
• Joachim v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 19×