Mann 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 that because the trial court’s instruction to the jury was not erroneous, “any objection to the instruction would have been meritless, and the failure to make a meritless objection does not constitute ineffective assistance or counsel.”
• holding that trial counsel’s failure to object to an instruction was not deficient performance because “any objection to the instruction would have been meritless, and the failure to make a meritless objection does 20 not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• trial counsel’s strategy to not object to evidence so as not to highlight it was reasonable
• trial counsel’s decision not to object because “she did 27 not want to highlight the testimony” was not patently unreasonable
• trial counsel's strategy to not object to evidence so as not to highlight it was reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 3×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11
• Martarius Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-17
• Wesley Vick, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Susan Lorraine Weidman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 23×
• Webb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 22×
• Byrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-29· cited 22×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 20×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-20· cited 14×