Cotton 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 a defendant's failure to make an objection in the trial court as to authentication waived that ground for exclusion of evidence
• holding that a Facebook account was properly authenticated by a witness who knew the defendant’s nickname that was associated with the account and recognized that the defendant’s friends and family were listed in the friend’s list of the account
• noting that rules for authentication of social media postings are unchanged from old Evidence Code
• new Evidence Code case, but noting that rules for authentication of social media postings are unchanged from old Evidence Code
• despite defendant's claim of self-defense, jury is \free to accept the evidence that [a] stabbing was not done in self-defense and to reject any evidence in support of a justification defense\
• despite defendant’s claim of self-defense, jury is “free to accept the evidence that [a] stabbing was not done in self-defense and to reject any evidence in support of a justification defense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 70×
• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 34×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 27×
• State v. Christopher M. Palermo
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-12-18· cited 20×
• Blackledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 20×
• NICHOLSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 18×
• HOLZHEUSER v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-12· cited 14×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 12×
• Crankshaw v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 10×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-19· cited 9×
• Brooks v. Lopez.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-11· cited 2×
• State of Vermont v. Christina Marie Allcock
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-07-10· cited 2×
• Cotton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12
• The State v. Morgan.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-01
• Javorris Redding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• In the Interest of A.A., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-31

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Bunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 62×
• Sowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 57×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 38×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 34×
• Quintanilla v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 26×
• Grimes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 15×