Baird v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• involving OCGA § 40-6-391 (a) (1), the statute for motor vehicles which is nearly identical in substance to OCGA §52-7-12 (a)(1)
• “Because individual responses to alcohol vary, the presence of alcohol in a defendant’s body, by itself, does not support an inference that the defendant was an impaired driver.” (Emphasis in original)
• trial court erred in suggesting to the jury that a refusal to submit to testing “by itself” supported an inference that defendant was driving while impaired
• “Error in a jury charge is harmless where there is no reasonable probability that it misled the jury or permitted a defendant’s conviction on an erroneous theory.”
• “Error in a jury charge is harmless where there is no reasonable probability that it misled the jury or permitted a defendant’s conviction on an erroneous theory.”
• “Error in a jury charge is harmless where there is no reasonable probability that it misled the jury or permitted a defendant’s conviction on an erroneous theory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Frost
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 60×
• State v. Ellison
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-03· cited 37×
• Williamson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-20· cited 32×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-12-06· cited 26×
• State v. Gray
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-10· cited 25×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-07· cited 22×
• CRUSSELLE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-07· cited 21×
• Drogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-04-06· cited 21×
• Able v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-27· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-12· cited 10×
• Shaheed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-12-01· cited 10×
• Pinch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-02· cited 8×
• Dodd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-19· cited 6×
• Epps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-16· cited 3×
• Durrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-11· cited 3×
• KORPONAI v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 3×
• Duelmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-29· cited 3×
• Hammill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30· cited 3×
• Bowling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-26· cited 1×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 69×
• State v. Terry
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-05· cited 28×
• Duckworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-31· cited 17×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-14· cited 17×
• State v. Kachwalla
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 14×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-28· cited 11×
• Bravo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 11×
• Nation v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 11×
• Shockley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-07· cited 9×