Adams 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 a trial court’s decision concerning the marital privilege is reviewed for an abuse of 17 discretion
• highly improbable that State’s comment that sequestration of jurors would prevent one of defendant’s associates from “buying . . . them off” contributed to the verdict
• highly improbable that State’s comment that sequestration of jurors would prevent one of defendant’s associates from “buying . . . them off” contributed to the verdict
• prosecutor’s deduction that defendant had killed eyewitnesses was permissible, “regardless of how illogical and unreasonable,” and was “a matter for reply by adverse counsel, not for rebuke by the court”
• district attorney’s statement during closing argument that “there are no eyewitnesses [to the crime] because [the defendant’s] done away with them” was permissible deduction from evidence, not statement of facts not in evidence
• district attorney’s statement during closing 5 argument that “there are no eyewitnesses [to the crime] because [the defendant’s] done away with them” was permissible deduction from evidence, not statement of facts not in evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 54×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 32×
• George v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 19×
• Unden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-09-06· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 10×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-06· cited 9×
• Lebis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-04· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-25· cited 5×
• Spruell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-18· cited 5×
• Self v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-25· cited 5×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 5×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-29· cited 4×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Alfonzo Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-18

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Thaxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-05-02· cited 96×
• Lobdell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-12· cited 73×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-12-09· cited 71×
• Ladson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-13· cited 70×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-05-11· cited 48×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-07-02· cited 45×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-13· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 16×
• Westbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-04-15· cited 12×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-22· cited 7×