Moody 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 may properly “urge[ ] the jury to make a deduction about veracity from the facts”
• sustained objection to improper argument of counsel cannot serve as basis for reversal unless contemporaneous with a denied motion for mistrial, denied request to strike, or denied request for curative instructions
• these two showings must be made to show ineffective assistance of counsel
• trial counsel not ineffective for failing to call the defendant’s mother as an alibi witness, where counsel testified that he “did not recall” either the mother or the defendant informing him where the defendant was on the night of the incident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fairclough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 55×
• Akhimie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 30×
• Sewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 27×
• Driggers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 20×
• Byrd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 19×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 18×
• Vaughns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-25· cited 15×
• Lloyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-12· cited 11×
• Castleberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 8×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-28· cited 8×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 6×
• Callahan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-11· cited 3×
• Tommy Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-10
• Demarcus West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-26

Cites

14 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×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 108×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Shirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 89×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Bolden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 38×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 38×
• Givens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-11· cited 32×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-05-06· cited 30×
• Kyler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 24×
• Littles v. Balkcom
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-20· cited 16×
• Hosick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-02· cited 6×