Clay v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that defendant waived claims by not raising them in the trial court and obtaining a ruling on the issue below
• rejecting challenge to witness’s identification of defendant from a photo lineup after seeing news reports of defendant’s arrest
• “[A]n error cannot be plain where 11 there is no controlling authority on point.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• blanket claim that a “statement was inadmissible because it was obtained after an alleged illegal arrest” was deemed abandoned because appellant offered “no argument or evidence as to why his arrest was illegal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Madera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 4×
• Eleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 3×
• Robert Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-04-30
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Chatman v. Mancill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 71×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 60×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 36×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 32×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 30×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 27×
• Sharp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 18×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 17×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 15×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 12×
• Norman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 8×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 5×