Brinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where “trial court properly instructs the jury on circumstantial evidence, it is not error to refuse to give a requested ‘two equal theories’ charge”
• erroneous admission of hearsay testimony did not require reversal where “it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict”
• hearsay is properly admitted to explain an officer’s conduct only when such conduct is relevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 65×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Mullinax v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 39×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Esprit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 34×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-01· cited 30×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Edmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 21×
• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 11×
• Gilliam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-28· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 9×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 8×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-04· cited 8×
• Boatright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 8×
• Elmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-08· cited 7×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 6×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 4×
• Love v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-04· cited 2×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Renner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-07· cited 120×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 31×
• Mundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 23×
• Rollins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-05· cited 16×
• Clifford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 14×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 11×
• Seckinger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-04· cited 2×
• Yarborough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-04-11· cited 1×