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.

• finding statements victim made to police officer were testimonial and inadmissible under Crawford, but that the error was harmless
• murder victim’s statements to police officers investigating previous complaints against defendant were “testimonial in nature” and should not have been admitted at trial
• murder victim’s statements to police officers investigating previous complaints against defendant were “testimonial in nature” and should not have been admitted at trial
• statements victim made to police during course of officers’ investigations of complaints made by victim against defendant inadmissible under Crawford
• admission of victim’s statements to police was harmless in light of the “strength of evidence” against defendant
• conviction for possession of knife during commission of murder merged with conviction for possession of knife during commission of kidnapping with bodily injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 73×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• State v. MacLin
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2006-01-18· cited 69×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 55×
• Gay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 39×
• Brawner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 30×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 28×
• Soto v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 27×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 25×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-03-28· cited 24×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-11· cited 22×
• Escobar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-11· cited 22×
• Gresham v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 22×
• McNaughton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 22×
• Cuyuch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 21×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 21×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 19×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-15· cited 18×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-16· cited 14×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 102×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 51×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 37×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 27×
• Batton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-25· cited 23×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 23×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 14×
• Hambrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-29· cited 9×
• Garner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 8×
• Lemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-09· cited 3×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 3×