Dent v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that trial counsel’s strategic decision not to file pre-trial motion for immunity from prosecution because he did not want to expose defendant to pre-trial cross-examination was not unreasonable, and therefore, defendant failed to show that trial counsel performed deficiently
• “It is a jury question as to whether [a showing of self-defense] has been made, and therefore, whether a defendant’s claim of self-defense should be accepted.”
• counsel chose not to subject the defendant to pretrial cross-examination and chose to present the case to the jury rather than pretrial to the trial judge
• a jury charge constitutes plain error only when the instruction has an obvious defect which likely affected the outcome of the proceedings
• appellant failed to show any prejudice, alleging only “in conclusory terms[] that he was prejudiced by his attorney’s failure”
• “Mere typographical or clerical errors do not ordinarily provide a basis to suppress evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 36×
• Flood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 31×
• Koonce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 24×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 18×
• Rich v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 18×
• BROXTON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 16×
• Broxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 15×
• Hurston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 14×
• Bundel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 8×
• State v. LEDBETTER (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 8×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 5×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 4×
• Madera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 4×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 3×
• Depriest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 3×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 2×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 2×
• Stephen Ashley Hagan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-12

Cites

33 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 60×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• McGill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 49×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 49×
• Ruffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-29· cited 47×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 36×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 36×
• Worthem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 35×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 35×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 34×
• Manner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 32×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×