Coleman 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 the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the defendant’s prior drug use where, among other things, it was “not likely that the jury improperly convicted [the defendant] based solely on evidence of her previous [drug use]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Donald Chambers
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Dempsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Biggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03

Cites

26 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×
• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 229×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 43×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 25×
• DEBELBOT v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 21×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 18×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 16×
• Troutman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 15×
• Dunbar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 13×
• State v. HARRIS (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 10×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 10×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 9×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×