Dawson 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 the statements, “Maybe there’s a different explanation for this. Maybe the right charge isn’t murder. . . . I don’t know. But until you straighten it out for me, you’re on the hook for murder,” did not offer improper hope of benefit
• listing cases where similar statements by law enforcement did not constitute a hope of benefit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 19×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 13×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-01· cited 13×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 11×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 9×
• Tyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 8×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 8×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 7×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 5×
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 4×
• Marlo Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-27
• Bo Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-02
• MacKenzi Stinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-02-20

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Chatman v. Mancill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 71×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• State v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 45×
• Edenfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 43×
• Tyler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-11· cited 41×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 39×
• Loadholt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 38×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 36×
• Tesfaye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 34×
• State v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-05· cited 33×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 31×