Turpin v. Mobley

How courts have described this case

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

• reviewing court “must be ‘highly deferential to those choices made by defense counsel in the conduct of a trial that are arguably dictated by a reasonable trial strategy.’ [Cit.]”
• when determining deficient performance, courts must be highly deferential to trial decisions made by counsel that are motivated by a reasonable trial strategy
• whether an attorney’s trial tactics are reasonable is a question of law, not fact
• courts must be highly deferential to trial counsel’s reasonable strategic decisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Gonzalez v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-04-26· cited 151×
• Head v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 133×
• Head v. Ferrell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-22· cited 52×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 49×
• Head v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 47×
• Belton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 40×
• Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan, A.K.A. Billy Patrick Wayne Hill v. Terry Stewart, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-11-28· cited 38×
• Stephen A. Mobley v. Frederick Head, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-09-18· cited 34×
• Davis v. Turpin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-13· cited 33×
• Waldrip v. Head
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-12· cited 32×
• Head v. Stripling
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-14· cited 32×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Springs v. Seese
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 23×
• Hall v. McPherson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 18×
• Hall v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 12×
• Ramsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-31· cited 10×
• Tharpe v. Head
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-10· cited 10×
• Zant v. Means
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 9×
• Mobley v. Head
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-10-04· cited 8×

Cites

28 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×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• United States v. Frady
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 5,791×
• Jerry White v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-09-03· cited 412×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• James Randall Rogers, Cross-Appellee. v. Walter D. Zant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-01-21· cited 292×
• Lajara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-18· cited 126×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Devier v. Zant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-09-23· cited 116×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 92×
• Zant v. Moon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 84×
• White v. Kelso
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 76×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• Black v. Hardin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 71×
• Jefferson v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-28· cited 66×
• Roulain v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 66×
• Valenzuela v. Newsome
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-30· cited 59×
• Linares v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-28· cited 43×