Blevins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction on the ground that the jury was not “drawn in open court” as required by statute
• “[T]he term ‘in open court’ was so clearly defined [in Zugar] that its meaning since then ought not to be misunderstood[.]”
• juries must be drawn in open court
• juries must be drawn in open court
• defendant had attorney before indictment
• defendant had attorney before indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jarrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 209×
• Terry Lee Goodwin v. Charles Balkcom, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-09-03· cited 139×
• Pass v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-06-02· cited 117×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-12-03· cited 103×
• James Lee Spencer v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-01-23· cited 66×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-09-24· cited 60×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-05-05· cited 56×
• Amos Lumpkin v. James Ricketts, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-05-02· cited 55×
• Cauley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-11-09· cited 50×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-04-09· cited 39×
• Albitus v. Farmers & Merchants Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-07-13· cited 34×
• Whitlock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-10-08· cited 31×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-06-20· cited 30×
• Cummings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-01-08· cited 26×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-11-22· cited 19×
• Hugh H. Tennon, III v. Dr. James Ricketts, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-06-13· cited 17×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 17×
• Hill v. Stynchcombe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-02-06· cited 16×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-02-23· cited 15×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 15×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sims v. Balkcom
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-05-07· cited 51×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-06-05· cited 45×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-05-14· cited 40×
• Lyens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-12-22· cited 33×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-09-16· cited 27×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1879-02-15· cited 24×
• Reich v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1874-07-15· cited 18×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-08-13· cited 18×
• O'Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-06-16· cited 15×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-04-12· cited 12×
• Brant v. Brant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-06-09· cited 3×