Branch v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that Thornton “held that when the trial court initially determines that the informer was merely a tipster, his identity would be privileged”
• informer who was not paid for information, who took no part in offense and was not present at time of offense was mere tipster

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-02· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-10-28· cited 11×
• Villegas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 10×
• Strozier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-29· cited 7×
• Bolt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-25· cited 5×
• Quarles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-02-01· cited 2×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 125×
• Bush v. Wilcox
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-02-09· cited 2×