Matthews v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing the question of voluntariness determined by the totality of the circumstances from the question of whether the defendant was given an improper hope of benefit
• “[T]he failure to make a meritless motion or objection does not pro- vide a basis upon which to find ineffective assistance of counsel.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “the failure to make a meritless motion or objection” is not constitutionally deficient
• defendant’s admission to stabbing the victim and possession of a steak knife set matching the knife blade used to stab the victim constituted sufficient evidence to authorize defendant’s convictions of malice murder and possession of a knife during the 12 commission of a crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Reese v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 12×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 8×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×
• Chambliss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 5×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 4×
• Quintanar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Fripp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Short v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28
• MacKenzi Stinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-02-20

Cites

40 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×
• Oregon v. Elstad
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 2,824×
• Frazier v. Cupp
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,468×
• Bram v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-12-13· cited 1,397×
• United States v. Brenton-Farley
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-06-02· cited 223×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• United States v. Lall
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-05-28· cited 95×
• State v. Chulpayev
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 64×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• State v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 45×
• State v. Lynch
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 36×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 32×
• Welbon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 31×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 31×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 30×
• Elkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 27×
• State v. Troutman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×