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 defendant did not meet burden to rebut presumption that trial counsel's failure to object to leading questions was not sound trial strategy
• noting that “comments upon the patently obvious generally pose little, if any, danger of prejudice”
• interrogating officer’s comments for the purpose of eliciting a response from a suspect do 17 not amount to improper opinion testimony
• trial witness may not comment on a witness’s credibility or lack thereof
• trial witness may not comment on a witness's credibility or lack thereof
• “Unless clearly erroneous, a trial court’s findings as to factual determinations and credibility relating to the admissibility of the defendant’s statement at a Jackson v. Denno hearing will be upheld on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 53×
• State v. Worsley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 40×
• Dority v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 33×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×
• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 23×
• Curry v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-05· cited 23×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 19×
• Maurer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-21· cited 18×
• Dubose v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 15×
• Carson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 15×
• Lester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 14×
• BUTLER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 13×
• SMITH v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 12×
• Battle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 11×
• Tanner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 8×

Cites

37 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Collum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 58×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• Nicely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 39×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Columbus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 35×
• Stapleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-29· cited 34×
• Fielding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 33×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 29×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 27×
• Cade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×