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 repeated statements that accused would “soon be free to go” was collateral
• rejecting exclusion of a confession under OCGA § 24-3-50 where the officer “periodically stated that [the defendant] would soon be released, while questioning continued”
• no evidence of hope of benefit in the absence of evidence a detective led defendant to believe he would receive a lighter sentence or immediate freedom if he confessed
• no evidence of hope of benefit in the absence of evidence a detective led defendant to believe he would receive a lighter sentence or immediate freedom if he confessed
• no evidence of hope of benefit in the absence of evidence a detective led defendant to believe he would receive a lighter sentence or immediate freedom if he confessed
• “ ‘slightest hope of benefit’ can mean hope of a lighter sentence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-14· cited 30×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• Teasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-24· cited 24×
• Canty v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 22×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-05· cited 16×
• Futch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 15×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-24· cited 14×
• State v. Woods
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 12×
• Petty v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-04-26· cited 10×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-16· cited 10×
• Soilberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-31· cited 9×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-13· cited 8×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-24· cited 8×
• State v. Whitby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-07· cited 6×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 5×
• Reagan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 5×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 397×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Thomason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 82×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 59×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 48×
• Raheem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 46×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-29· cited 44×
• Durham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-12-02· cited 44×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 38×
• Hewitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 35×
• State v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-05· cited 33×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 29×