Brown 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 a police report prepared in a prosecution for cocaine possession was inadmissible under the business-records hearsay exception in former OCGA § 24-3-14
• concluding that the trial court erred in allowing “a police officer to read into evidence the narrative portion of a police report of which he had no personal knowledge and did not prepare”
• concluding that the trial court erred in allowing “a police officer to read into evidence the narrative portion of a police report of which he had no personal knowledge and did not prepare”
• ruling that “[t]he only evidence linking appellant to the [prior crime of possession of crack cocaine] was a certified conviction, which is insufficient, standing alone, to establish the required nexus” for similar transaction evidence
• finding narrative portion of police report not admissible as a business record because narrative may contain opinion and reflect “human attitudes and emotions which are subjective in nature and susceptible to many interpretations”
• finding narrative portion of police report not admissible as a business record because narrative may contain opinion and reflect “human attitudes and emotions which are subjective in nature and susceptible to many interpretations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Goss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 67×
• Inman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 42×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 38×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Bailey v. Edmundson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 32×
• Wilbanks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-17· cited 31×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 30×
• Albertson v. City of Jesup
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-08· cited 29×
• Armour v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-12· cited 27×
• Luong v. Tran
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-20· cited 22×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-15· cited 20×
• Patterson v. Lopez
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-16· cited 19×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×
• Horner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-09· cited 17×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-18· cited 15×
• Morton v. Horace Mann Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-15· cited 15×
• Kimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-20· cited 15×
• White v. Regions Bank
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-28· cited 15×
• Gerisch v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 14×
• Doe v. Young Women's Christian Ass'n of Greater Atlanta, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-29· cited 14×

Cites

46 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Palmer v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-01· cited 1,191×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• People v. Guidice
  New York Court of Appeals· 1994-05-12· cited 335×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 157×
• Whitlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-06-21· cited 133×
• Bacher v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-09· cited 117×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-08· cited 81×
• Solomon v. Shuell
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1990-07-03· cited 72×
• Martin v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-09-11· cited 72×
• Harrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-05· cited 71×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 68×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 53×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 43×
• United States v. Cary Brown
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-12-21· cited 41×
• Greene v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1996-12-16· cited 36×
• Stubbs v. Daughtry
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-01-11· cited 32×