Moulder 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 counsel’s performance was not deficient where he reasonably requested a specific jury instruction in support of an argument he made in closing attempting to undermine the thoroughness of the State’s investigation
• concluding trial counsel’s performance was not deficient and that trial counsel performed reasonably when he advised defendant that the State could attempt to impeach him with convictions more than ten years old if he took the stand
• “Reasonable decisions as to whether to raise a specific objection are ordinarily matters of trial strategy and provide no ground for reversal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rashad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 21×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 11×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Priester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 7×
• Nabors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 5×
• Jiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 4×
• Pounds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-11-05· cited 4×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-04
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-21
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

25 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×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 33×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Daughtie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 31×
• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Vasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 29×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 26×
• Hurt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 22×
• Danuel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 14×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 12×
• Mathews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 11×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 8×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-08· cited 8×