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 evidence of defendant’s guilt was sufficient to convict him of murder but was not overwhelming, and holding that erroneously admitted Rule 404 (b
• holding that the erroneous admission of other acts evidence was not harmless where “while evidence of appellant’s guilt was sufficient to convict, it was not overwhelming,” and the improperly admitted evidence of the murder of a state trooper was extremely prejudicial
• holding that because evidence against defendant in murder prosecution was sufficient but not overwhelming, erroneous admission of prior murder under Rule 404 (b) was extremely prejudicial and precluded conclusion that it was highly probable its admission did not contribute to the verdict
• holding that evidence of prior murder was not admissible to show motive under Rule 404 (b) because prior murder of law enforcement officer during a prison break was not logically relevant to the murder of a security guard during a theft
• concluding that Rule 404 (b) evidence was not admissible to prove identity where “the [prior and current] crimes were not so similar as to mark the murders as the handiwork of appellant” and “the modus operandi for each murder was relatively commonplace — these were not signature crimes”
• holding prior murder not admissible even though it \bore some similarities\ to the murder being tried because \the modus operandi for each murder was relatively commonplace - these were not signature crimes\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• Brewner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 74×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 70×
• Brannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 66×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 57×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Morris v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-21· cited 44×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 39×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 36×
• Esprit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 34×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 32×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 26×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 26×
• Blackledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 20×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-29· cited 203×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 172×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• United States v. Phaknikone
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-05-10· cited 105×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• United States v. Utter
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-10-16· cited 69×
• United States v. Clemons
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-22· cited 51×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-22· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 21×
• McMullen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-09· cited 15×
• Amey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18· cited 15×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-06-06· cited 14×
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 12×
• Hutchins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 10×