Curry v. Zant

How courts have described this case

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

• finding counsel ineffective for failing to hire psychiatrist to testify in mitigation at penalty phase
• finding counsel ineffective for failing to hire psychiatrist to testify in mitigation at penalty phase
• trial counsel ineffective for failing to further investigate client’s mental health despite psychological examination which showed that he was “not hitting on all cylinders”
• counsel ineffective for failing to further investigate client’s mental health despite indications that client was mentally ill
• counsel ineffective for failing to further investigate client's mental health despite indications that client was mentally ill
• trial counsel failed to follow up on defendant’s only psychological report which showed that defendant had organic brain damage and was “not hitting on all cylinders”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-03-05· cited 771×
• Murray v. Giarratano
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 547×
• Ward v. Hall
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 525×
• Fleming v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-01· cited 141×
• Engberg v. Meyer
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-10-17· cited 84×
• Gibson v. Turpin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 75×
• Turpin v. Lipham
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 38×
• Turpin v. Christenson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-16· cited 37×
• Turpin v. Mobley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-15· cited 35×
• Dubose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-09-30· cited 20×
• Madge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 19×
• Head v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-30· cited 15×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-26· cited 13×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-29· cited 12×
• Huzzie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-02· cited 12×
• Defrancisco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 10×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-05· cited 7×
• Terrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-21· cited 7×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 82×
• Holloway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-04· cited 18×