Baptiste v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that even when the defendant sued the trial judge in connection with the case before the judge, such suit did not provide grounds for recusal as it was not a statutory ground for recusal
• finding Skomer distinguishable because the judge neither participated in plea negotiations nor stated what sentence would be imposed if the defendant rejected the plea offer and was convicted at trial
• statement of seven U. S. Supreme Court Justices, noting concern about “ ‘strat-egizing’ recusals, that is, selecting law firms with an eye to producing the recusal of particular Justices”
• “The fact that the judge has sat on prior cases of the party or ruled on prior matters in the case before the judge is legally insufficient as a ground! 1 for recusal.”
• “[A] recusal issue may not be abused as an element of trial strategy”
• “[A] recusal issue may not be abused as an element of trial strategy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ellis v. Stanford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-02· cited 55×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Christensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 33×
• Gillis v. City of Waycross
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-01· cited 27×
• Lemming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-23· cited 24×
• Hargrove v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-13· cited 21×
• Post v. State v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 21×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-25· cited 20×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-25· cited 16×
• State v. Wakefield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-08· cited 15×
• Rice v. Cannon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-17· cited 14×
• Swantner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-08· cited 14×
• Keller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-28· cited 11×
• Jones County v. a MINING GROUP, LLC
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 11×
• Chastain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-13· cited 11×
• Boccia v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 11×
• Graybill v. Attaway Construction & Associates, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 11×
• Rosser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-17· cited 9×
• Robert Trim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-11· cited 9×
• Simprop Acquisition Co. v. L. Simpson Charitable Remainder Unitrust
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-10· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• Mayberry v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-20· cited 732×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 117×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• State v. Fleming
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-08· cited 79×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-25· cited 65×
• Dowdy v. Palmour
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-16· cited 63×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-25· cited 47×
• In Re Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-07· cited 43×
• Pardo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-07· cited 42×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-26· cited 39×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 39×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 38×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-04-10· cited 36×
• Hunnicutt v. Hunnicutt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-06· cited 32×
• Tarwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-29· cited 31×
• Brannen v. Prince
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-08· cited 28×