Baker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• waiver of statutory right to special jury on competency issue did not waive trial court’s independent duty
• where there was evidence that defendant was psychotic and unable to understand the proceedings, it was error to dismiss a special plea of incompetency without a hearing under former OCGA § 17-7-130
• “[W]hen evidence was presented indicating incompetency during the trial, there was a duty on the trial judge to inquire into the issue of competency and hold a hearing on the issue.”
• case remanded for a hearing as to competency to stand trial
• case remanded for a hearing as to competency to stand trial
• “ ‘[I]f at any time while criminal proceedings are pending, the court observes facts which raise doubt as to the sanity of the accused, or such facts are brought to its attention by counsel, the question of his sanity should be settled before further steps are taken.’ [Cit.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Lightsey
  California Supreme Court· 2012-07-09· cited 218×
• Thaxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-05-02· cited 96×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-23· cited 57×
• Meders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-28· cited 42×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 41×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 38×
• Biggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 37×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-08· cited 36×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-13· cited 35×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-28· cited 34×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-06· cited 34×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 33×
• Sizemore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-21· cited 28×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-28· cited 28×
• Cornelius v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-24· cited 24×
• Callaway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 21×
• State v. Bruce
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2011-04-06· cited 20×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-01· cited 19×
• Partridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-14· cited 18×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pate v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 3,039×
• Drope v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 2,695×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Corn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 101×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-10· cited 59×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-15· cited 58×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1960-03-16· cited 33×
• Lingo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-05-09· cited 27×
• Partain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-04· cited 19×
• Standridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-04-20· cited 15×
• Ricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-28· cited 13×
• Smalls v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-01· cited 6×
• Cronch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-04-06· cited 1×