Bell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• statement victim made to nurse during a medical examination and in which she identified defendant as her rapist were admissible under the Child Hearsay Statute
• statement victim made to nurse during a medical examination and in which she identified defendant as her rapist were admissible under the Child Hearsay Statute
• no abuse of discretion in allowing prosecutor to use leading questions to examine 14-year-old victim who demonstrated timidity and fear
• “[T]he [victim] testified to her age of 13 at the time of the incident, to [the defendant’s] forcible act of intercourse upon her, and to her pain and bleeding from the act;... and the nurse testified to the injuries to the girl’s hymen and vaginal area resulting from penetration.”
• “[T]he [victim] testified to her age of 13 at the time of the incident, to [the defendant’s] forcible act of intercourse upon her, and to her pain and bleeding from the act; . . . and the nurse testified to the injuries to the girl’s hymen and vaginal area resulting from penetration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• DAMEROW v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-06· cited 38×
• Ledford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-01· cited 22×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-11· cited 16×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-27· cited 14×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-30· cited 14×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-13· cited 11×
• Kim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-16· cited 10×
• Travis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-22· cited 8×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 5×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-21· cited 3×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-08· cited 2×
• Kendrick v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-13· cited 1×
• Sands v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-07
• State v. Antonio Tapia Almanza
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-11-20
• Glenard Rico Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-11
• Michael Abernathy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-08-19

Cites

24 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×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 469×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-04· cited 53×
• Hash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-06· cited 50×
• Quiroz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-06· cited 48×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-25· cited 31×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Kent v. Hunt & Associates, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-05· cited 27×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-17· cited 22×
• Rosenthal v. Hudson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-01· cited 16×
• Vincent v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-17· cited 15×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-15· cited 13×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-06-03· cited 10×
• Seritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-14· cited 10×
• Slade v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-31· cited 10×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 9×
• Geiger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-19· cited 9×
• Treadaway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-01-24· cited 8×
• Tate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 8×