Burton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• denial of mistrial affirmed where witness made passing reference to probation that did not reference the defendant specifically
• mistrial properly denied where witness made passing reference to probation paper that may or may not have implicated defendant’s character
• “whether or not to testify in one’s own defense is considered a tactical decision to be made by the defendant himself after consultation with his trial counsel”
• whether to testify is decision for defendant to make after consultation with counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-25· cited 374×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 46×
• State v. Nejad
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 45×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 44×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 39×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-24· cited 28×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 26×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 25×
• Barron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 20×
• Sanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 19×
• Potter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 15×
• Chambers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 15×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 15×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-19· cited 14×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 14×
• Nejad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 11×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-29· cited 6×
• Nabors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 5×

Cites

13 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×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-02· cited 39×
• Ogles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-27· cited 32×
• Waugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-14· cited 25×
• Young v. Ricketts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-24· cited 21×
• McGowan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-13· cited 18×
• Zellner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-01-10· cited 15×
• Coonce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-05-16· cited 13×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 9×
• Swayzer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 8×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-12· cited 8×