Fulton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding to be improper an argument specifically referencing the defendant’s dangerousness: “He is a menace to our society. He’s like a cancer in the community, and I am asking you to be the surgeons and cut him out.”
• officer referred to defendant as the “ ‘murderer in the shooting’ ”; defendant failed to show prejudice
• counsel not ineffective for failing to object when prosecutor argued, “ ‘That’s the truth, that’s what happened.’ ”
• “The trial court admitted the testimony as res gestae evidence, which is not subject to the notice and hearing requirements of USCR 31.1. USCR 31.3 (E).”
• no prejudice resulted from counsel’s failure to object to alleged statement of opinion on ultimate issue by police officer
• counsel’s failure to object to ultimate issue testimony did not so prejudice defendant’s defense that there was a reasonable probability that trial outcome would have been different

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 108×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 51×
• State v. Holley
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-01-12· cited 51×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 46×
• Flanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 33×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 32×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Sampson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 27×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 25×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-25· cited 24×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 24×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 23×
• Dyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 22×
• Sanchez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×

Cites

34 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×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 72×
• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 63×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-07· cited 60×
• Drane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 53×
• Bellamy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 47×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• Crozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 37×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 29×
• Hansley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 29×
• Eagle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 28×
• Pless v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-12· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 27×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×