Colton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Certainly, only voluntary incriminating statements are admissible against an accused at trial, and it is the State’s burden to prove the voluntariness of a [custodial statement] by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• “Certainly, only voluntary incriminating statements are admissible against an accused at trial, and it is the State’s burden to prove the 26 voluntariness of a [custodial statement] by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Troutman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 26×
• Steele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-24· cited 18×
• Morales v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-29· cited 7×
• State v. TRIPP (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 6×
• Zeigler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-21· cited 1×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Calvin Sydney Steele III v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-24
• Melannie Zeigler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-21

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 44×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 40×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 39×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 27×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 19×
• Currier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 19×
• Colton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 15×
• Benchmark Builders, Inc. v. Schultz
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04· cited 9×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-25· cited 5×