Allaben 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 two post-incision autopsy photographs, including a close-up photograph detailing the victim’s injuries, “were not more prejudicial than probative” under OCGA § 24-4-403
• noting that we review a ruling under the rule of completeness for abuse of discretion
• Rule of Completeness “permits introduction only of additional material that is relevant and is necessary to qualify, explain, or place into context the portion already introduced”
• Rule of Completeness “permits introduction only of additional material that is relevant and is necessary to qualify, explain, or place into context the portion already introduced”
• pursuant to the “rule of completeness,” if “part of a conversation is introduced, all that is said in the same conversation which is relevant to the issue should be admitted” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “A trial court’s refusal to give a jury charge in the exact language requested by a defendant is not error if the charge given by the trial court substantially covers the applicable principles of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Castillo-Velasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 26×
• Muckle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 20×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 19×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 17×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 14×
• Smiley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 9×
• Newton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 9×
• Pippen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 8×
• CLARK v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-26· cited 4×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 4×
• STALLINGS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-12· cited 2×
• Smith v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-07· cited 1×
• Nicole Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-05
• Jamie Courtney Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-02
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-12-12
• Gravitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Keddron Rakee West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-12-12

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Williams
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-05-16· cited 196×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 172×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 65×
• Reinhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 62×
• McKibbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 50×
• Stubbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 44×
• Guyse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 31×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 31×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 24×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 19×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 17×
• Dailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 15×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 13×
• Keita v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 12×
• Hooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-21· cited 12×