Burris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the trial court's exclusion of certain evidence was reversible error, explaining that if the evidence was enough to raise a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt in the mind of a juror, it was adequate to change the outcome of the case
• finding that the trial court’s exclusion of certain evidence was reversible error, explaining that if the evidence was enough to raise a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt in the mind of a juror, it was adequate to change the outcome of the case
• exclusion of evidence that victim had accused another man of molesting her during the same time period defendant was charged with molesting her constituted reversible error
• trial court properly excluded evidence of an unrelated molestation by a third party when the victim never named the third party as her molester and there was no evidence supporting the defendant’s position that the victim was molested or abused by the third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 31×
• Osborne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-29· cited 29×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-18· cited 26×
• French v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-06· cited 25×
• Walsh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-19· cited 25×
• McGarity v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 23×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-01· cited 21×
• Davidson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-11· cited 18×
• Neal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-13· cited 17×
• Roura v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-23· cited 15×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 14×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-01· cited 14×
• Marion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-03· cited 14×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 14×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-01· cited 14×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-01-11· cited 13×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 13×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-24· cited 12×
• Dodd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-03· cited 10×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-22· cited 83×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-07-03· cited 52×
• Booker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-02· cited 51×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 46×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1913-07-22· cited 45×
• Stamey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-05· cited 34×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-19· cited 31×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-01-10· cited 22×
• Booker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-10-08· cited 22×
• Sales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-05-28· cited 19×
• Gabbidon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-10-06· cited 13×
• Stancil v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-07-12· cited 11×
• Holman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-22· cited 6×