Mason v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor’s argument that witness is “telling you the honest truth” was not improper, where it was the conclusion the prosecutor wished for the jury to draw from the evidence
• counsel not ineffective for failing to object when prosecutor argued, “‘He’s telling you the truth. He’s telling you the honest truth.’”
• defendant’s failure to raise “continuing witness” rule at trial resulted in waiver on appeal
• prosecutor's argument that witness is \telling you the honest truth\ was not improper
• failure to object to proper closing argument does not amount to deficient performance
• trial counsel was deficient for failing to object to the prosecutor’s argument that the defendant “must be stopped. It’s apparent that he’s not going to do it unless you stop him. . . . Stop him before someone else in our community is Mr. Mason’s victim. Please, please stop him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• State v. Beecroft
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-05-23· cited 58×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-10· cited 53×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Humphrey v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 30×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 25×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 24×
• Caylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-14· cited 24×
• Zellars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 23×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 23×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-05· cited 20×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-16· cited 20×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 19×
• Hunt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 17×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-21· cited 16×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 16×
• Krauss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-28· cited 16×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 63×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 61×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 43×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Bolden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 38×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Render v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 26×
• Flournoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 21×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 18×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 17×
• Sabbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-19· cited 6×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-12· cited 5×