Brooks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plain error review was not available for alleged improperly admitted testimony
• plain error rule limited to death penalty cases and criminal cases wherein the trial court is alleged to have violated OCGA § 17-8-57
• “The trial court has great discretion to determine relevancy and materiality of evidence, and admission is favored in doubtful cases.”
• failure to object to admission of evidence at trial generally constitutes waiver of appellate review
• “The trial court has great discretion to determine relevancy and materiality of evidence, and admission is favored in doubtful cases.”
• failure to object to admission of evidence at trial generally constitutes waiver of appellate review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 76×
• Stinski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 65×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 46×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 42×
• Leger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-01· cited 37×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 36×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 33×
• Chumley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 31×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 28×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-29· cited 27×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 27×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 26×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 26×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 25×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 24×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 24×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-27· cited 23×
• McNaughton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 22×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 142×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 83×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 78×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Crozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 37×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 36×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 30×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 29×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-03· cited 26×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 17×
• Buchanan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-06· cited 15×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-01· cited 8×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-27· cited 6×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-26· cited 5×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-16· cited 5×