Benford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of a .22 caliber handgun possessed at arrest for another crime not admissible when charged crime committed with shotgun
• evidence of circumstances connected with an accused’s arrest is not automatically prejudicial or automatically relevant
• because defendant was arrested six weeks after alleged crime, which was committed with a shotgun, evidence of his possession of .22 caliber gun during the subsequent arrest was improperly admitted
• evidence that the defendant possessed crack cocaine at the time of his arrest for murder was admissible at trial because the evidence showed that the defendant and the victim smoked crack cocaine prior to the murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 49×
• Sweet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 49×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 40×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 27×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 25×
• Woolfolk v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 22×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 22×
• Haywood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-16· cited 18×
• Nealy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-09· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-11· cited 18×
• Daughtry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 17×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-30· cited 16×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-03· cited 16×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-19· cited 15×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-15· cited 14×
• Flannigan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 12×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-11· cited 12×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Clements v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-01-26· cited 70×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 63×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 54×
• Bixby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 43×
• McClung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-01-10· cited 40×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-26· cited 37×
• Ivester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-07· cited 37×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 23×
• McCord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 16×
• Crosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 15×
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 11×
• Suah v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 10×