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.

• affirming the trial court’s exclusion of proffered evidence implicating a third party because it did nothing more than “raise a conjectural inference that another person committed the [crime]”
• affirming trial court’s ruling that security video was admissible, despite the lack of personal authentication, where security director testified the cameras operated properly, were capable of reliably recording the scene, and recorded the events contemporaneously
• “[I]t is improper to allow a witness to testify as to the identity of a person in a video or photograph when such opinion evidence tends only to establish a fact which average jurors could decide thinking for themselves and drawing their own conclusions.” (citation and punctuation omitted
• presentation of testimony to the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 66×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 57×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 42×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 36×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 33×
• Grimes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-20· cited 28×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 27×
• Smoot v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-05· cited 23×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-05· cited 16×
• State v. Barnes
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2009-06-15· cited 15×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09· cited 12×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-22· cited 11×
• Parks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-18· cited 10×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-30· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-12· cited 8×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 8×
• Owens v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22· cited 7×
• Yancey v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-16· cited 6×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 5×
• Cesari v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 5×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 60×
• Johnson v. Knebel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 46×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 46×
• Cromartie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 45×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 41×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-03· cited 35×
• Azizi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 33×
• Lonchar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-07-13· cited 22×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-31· cited 19×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-03-11· cited 15×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-06· cited 15×
• Oree v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 15×
• Coley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-24· cited 13×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-16· cited 9×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-27· cited 6×
• Sanford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-18· cited 4×
• Kent v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1894-04-16· cited 2×