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.

• addressing a claim that the trial court should have sua sponte investigated a juror-misconduct issue
• declining to apply plain-error review to a claim “that the trial court should have sua sponte conducted its own investigation into [a] juror’s alleged [misconduct]” rather than simply reminding the jurors to avoid contact with persons outside the jury
• trial counsel did not perform deficiently by failing to further address alleged juror misconduct where reasonable 20 efforts were made to address the issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Jarrett James McCloud v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-01
• Dill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17
• GINES v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-12

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 59×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 15×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 14×
• Keener v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 9×