Faulkner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• it is for the finder of fact, not an appellate court, “to resolve conflicts in the evidence and questions of witness credibility” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “A reasonable lawyer might well have decided that, rather than make an objection of questionable merit, she would rely on her own closing argument . . . and on the trial court’s thorough charge on parties to a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Cawthon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-21· cited 26×
• Sauder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Dagne v. Schroeder
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 9×
• In re Brinson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 7×
• DUNSTON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 7×
• Nevins McFadden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• BLACKWELL v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29
• Kristopher Lee Cawthon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-21
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17

Cites

35 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• Felix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 201×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• McKibbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 50×
• Cohen v. Hartlage
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-07-09· cited 44×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 41×
• Bulloch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 40×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 34×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 31×
• Michaels v. Gordon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 24×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 24×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-27· cited 23×