Durden v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating the appellant’s sentence for aggravated assault because that conviction merged as a matter of law into his malice murder conviction
• \[T]he [prosecutor's] argument clearly did not inject facts not in evidence ... so OCGA § 17-8-75 is not applicable.\ (emphasis supplied)
• “[T]he [prosecutor’s] argument clearly did not inject facts not in evidence . . . so OCGA § 17-8-75 is not applicable.” (emphasis supplied)
• “failure to make a meritless motion or objection cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• defendant was not in custody where he voluntarily rode with police to station to be interviewed, was told he was not under arrest, was not handcuffed, and was interviewed in an unlocked room
• “failure to make a meritless motion or objection cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nazario v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 116×
• Venturino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 46×
• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 30×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 21×
• Bragg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×
• Teasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 15×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 12×
• BRYSON v. JACKSON
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-04· cited 10×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 8×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 7×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06· cited 5×
• Trimble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 4×
• Brunson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 2×
• Bryan Fossier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-12-29
• Jernerick Bernard Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06

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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 1,506×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• United States v. O’Brien
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-24· cited 235×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 63×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 59×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 54×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• Roebuck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 49×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 31×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 29×
• Rios v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-30· cited 28×
• Sewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 27×
• Reich v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-11-19· cited 24×