Butler 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 the defendant’s objection was untimely when he waited until the end of the prosecutor’s closing argument to raise it
• holding that the defendant’s objection was untimely when he waited until the end of the prosecutor’s closing argument to raise it
• waiting until the end of closing argument to move for a mistrial was untimely
• waiting until the end of closing argument to move for a mistrial was untimely
• rejecting the notion that a motion for mistrial based upon an improper closing argument can be made after closing argument, and holding that such a motion must be made at the time the improper argument is uttered
• “[A] matter such as the cross-examination of a witness is most often grounded in matters of trial tactics and strategy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Whitehead v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-01· cited 56×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 46×
• Manuel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 45×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 42×
• Lebis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 35×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 34×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-11· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 33×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 30×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 28×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-29· cited 27×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 24×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-09· cited 24×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 23×
• Overton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-26· cited 22×

Cites

21 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×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 65×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 63×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 54×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-04· cited 53×
• State v. Larocque
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 43×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 38×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 29×
• Williams v. Memorial Medical Center, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-07-12· cited 22×
• Bowden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 22×
• Hodnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-09-11· cited 20×
• Garey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-13· cited 12×