Chambers 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 trial court erred by refusing to admit evidence that the defendant did not have the sexually transmitted disease that the victim contracted
• in prosecution for incest and child molestation, trial court erroneously excluded evidence that victim tested positive for sexually transmitted disease
• where the evidence created the impression that the defendant had infected the victim, it was error to exclude evidence that defendant did not have the disease, as such evidence “was essential to [his] defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pickens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-14· cited 59×
• State v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 36×
• Warner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 15×
• State v. Pena-Rojas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-05-27· cited 14×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-17· cited 12×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-24· cited 12×
• Tidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-01· cited 12×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-12· cited 6×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-08· cited 6×
• Murrell v. Ricks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-27· cited 4×
• Ricks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-20· cited 2×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-16· cited 146×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-27· cited 25×
• Worth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-06· cited 16×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-19· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 14×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-13· cited 13×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-03· cited 10×
• Reece v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-05-23· cited 9×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-28· cited 8×
• Phillips v. Davis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1954-06-15· cited 3×