McNeal 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 defendant “opened the door” to having the State introduce his entire criminal history by implying, during his testimony, that he had only one prior conviction
• counsel not ineffective for failing to request voluntary manslaughter instruction where there was no evidence to support such a charge
• counsel not ineffective for failing to request voluntary manslaughter instruction where there was no evidence to support such a charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×
• Holloman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 20×
• Dimauro v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-26· cited 14×
• Brunson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 14×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 3×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-27· cited 2×
• Roderick Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• George Cecil McNeal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-04-21
• Timothy Ransom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-27
• Susan Lorraine Weidman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27

Cites

8 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-21· cited 372×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 13×
• Williams v. Booker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-21· cited 7×