Sampson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• claim that court erred in charging jury on level of certainty waived where counsel did not object or reserve objections
• failure to make meritless objections cannot support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
• “Qualified jurors are presumed to follow the instructions of the trial court.”
• \Qualified jurors are presumed to follow the instructions of the trial court.\
• the failure to make meritless objections cannot support an ineffectiveness claim
• “Qualified jurors are presumed to follow the instructions of the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 89×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04· cited 39×
• Womac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 30×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 25×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 19×
• Giddens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 18×
• Lacey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 16×
• Baptiste v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 13×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-13· cited 12×
• Winfrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 11×
• Mathews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 11×
• Winters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 10×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 8×
• Nguyen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-04· cited 8×
• Gathuru v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-16· cited 8×
• Richard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-04· cited 7×
• Santibanez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-18· cited 6×
• Leeks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-01· cited 5×

Cites

15 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×
• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Fults v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 89×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 65×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• Inman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 42×
• Castillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 26×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 25×
• Dunson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-16· cited 16×
• Tillman v. Massey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 15×
• Warbington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 12×
• Woodruff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-06· cited 8×