Floyd v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “counsel’s decisions based on a misunderstanding of the applicable law are not per se deficient”
• “[T]rial counsel’s failure to request appropriate jury instructions … is prejudicial if but for the errors, there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
• “[T]rial counsel’s failure to request appropriate jury instructions … is prejudicial if but for the errors, there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
• “[U]nder [OCGA § 16-11-138], if the jury believed that 12 Appellant was acting in self-defense when he shot [the deceased], the jury was required to acquit him of felony murder based on felon- in-possession.”
• “Because, as discussed in Division 1 above, the evidence was le- gally sufficient to support the jury’s guilty verdicts, the State may retry Appellant for felony murder predicated on felon-in-posses- sion as well as for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Zayas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 18×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 7×
• Brundage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 2×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Raiantez Shackles v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-09-18
• Dickerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-21
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

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×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• Hinton v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2014-02-24· cited 534×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 69×
• Benham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 57×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 39×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 33×
• King v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 31×
• Flood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 31×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 26×
• STEPP-McCOMMONS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 25×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 23×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 17×
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-04-16· cited 13×