Childress 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 could impeach witness who testified that she did not see murder by presenting testimony that witness recounted circumstances of murder to another
• court committed grave error by forcing defendant to choose between forgoing admission of relevant evidence and testifying before deciding if his testimony was needed
• court committed grave error by forcing defendant to choose between forgoing admission of relevant evidence and testifying before deciding if his testimony was needed
• rule of sequestration violated by actions of witness outside of the courtroom
• rule of sequestration violated by actions of witness outside of the courtroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 70×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 47×
• Lamar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 41×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-22· cited 36×
• Turpin v. Mobley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-15· cited 35×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 33×
• Rakestrau v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 32×
• Timmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 24×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-06· cited 22×
• Quijano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 22×
• Willett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-05· cited 21×
• Edmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 21×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 18×
• Askew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 14×
• Yates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 14×
• Hancock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-18· cited 10×
• Mobley v. Head
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-10-04· cited 8×
• Mullins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-16· cited 8×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brooks v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 601×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Lackey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-16· cited 80×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 60×
• Blanchard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-08· cited 55×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-23· cited 44×
• O'KELLEY v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-06-17· cited 43×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-15· cited 38×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-08· cited 23×
• Meschino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-09· cited 20×
• Cruz-Padillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-11-19· cited 15×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-10· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 8×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-18· cited 3×