Alexander v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a prosecutor had improperly stated her opinion regarding the credibility of a witness but further concluding that it was highly probable that the trial court’s error regarding the argument did not affect the verdict
• prosecutor’s statements “I thought [the witness] was extremely credible, and I thought you did, too”; “I’ll tell you it’s true. I loved finding him”; and “[the witness] told you the truth----He was completely worthy of belief’ were improper, though error was harmless
• “ T thought he was extremely credible.’ ”
• prosecutor’s statements “I thought [the witness] was extremely credible, and I thought you did, too”; “I’ll tell you it’s true. I loved finding him”; and “[the witness] told you the truth____He was completely worthy of belief ” were improper, though error was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 61×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• Pardo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-07· cited 42×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-04· cited 37×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-07· cited 36×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-22· cited 30×
• Lindley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 25×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 23×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Nguyen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 22×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-03-21· cited 20×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-11· cited 20×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 14×
• Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-18· cited 14×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Dunn v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-01-11· cited 1,678×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Milam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 180×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Shy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Shirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 89×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-15· cited 79×
• State v. McBride
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-18· cited 54×
• Blanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 41×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 31×
• Reeves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-22· cited 29×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-07-05· cited 19×
• McGee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-05-17· cited 19×
• Blige v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-28· cited 18×
• Smashum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 17×
• Rhodes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-05· cited 9×
• Hardy v. Richardson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 8×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-04-11· cited 6×