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.

• in no case where improper argument is alleged will the court’s ruling be reversed for not going further than requested
• grant of a motion for mistrial may be required where the injury is so grave that no act of the court could remove the damaging effect
• “Where there is a request that the court cause adversary counsel to desist from improper argument or that the court rebuke counsel, or a motion to declare a mistrial, and an adverse ruling is made, there is a basis for review”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-06-09· cited 80×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 54×
• Woodham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-24· cited 44×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-03· cited 42×
• Aycock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-07-12· cited 40×
• Bolden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 38×
• Spell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-07· cited 38×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-11-04· cited 36×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-07· cited 36×
• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-02-22· cited 35×
• A-1 Bonding Service, Inc. v. Hunter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-11-23· cited 35×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-12-14· cited 35×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-09-15· cited 31×
• Reliance Insurance v. Bridges
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-11-17· cited 27×
• Ehrlich v. Mills
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1948-05-13· cited 24×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1937-02-05· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-10-05· cited 23×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Lunsford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1939-07-15· cited 23×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-07-15· cited 175×
• Rawlins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-11-08· cited 141×
• Patton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-02-13· cited 105×
• Metropolitan Street Railroad v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1892-10-24· cited 95×
• Georgia Power Co. v. Puckett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1935-10-23· cited 85×
• Southern Railway Co. v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1906-07-27· cited 56×
• O'Dell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-05-10· cited 55×
• O'Neill Manufacturing Co. v. Pruitt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-04-10· cited 50×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-12-23· cited 42×
• Augusta & Summerville Railroad v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1887-11-10· cited 29×
• Smoot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1916-11-15· cited 28×
• Calhoun v. Cawley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1898-05-26· cited 26×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-03-16· cited 20×
• Bowens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1899-03-16· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1920-12-18· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-12-07· cited 6×
• Snell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-06-14· cited 6×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1893-03-10· cited 4×