Dixon 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 trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying mistrial based upon allegation of prosecutorial misconduct when appellant failed to “point to evidence that the prosecutor intentionally solicited the improper comment from the witness” (punctuation omitted)
• holding that movement consisting of the assailant blocking the victim’s escape from the hotel room and pulling her into the room and to the bed was not an inherent part of either the aggravated assault with a razor to the victim’s throat while on the bed or the subsequent rape
• pulling victim back into hotel room from hallway sufficient to prove asportation because it occurred before defendant threatened her with a razor and raped her
• applying the principle that a prosecutor should not improperly comment on a defendant’s silence to questions posed during cross- examination
• pulling victim back into hotel room from hallway sufficient to prove asportation because it occurred before Dixon threatened her with a razor and raped her
• “OCGA § 24-9-20 was amended effective July 1, 2005, to eliminate the [previous] language in subsection (b).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 35×
• Gilyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-01· cited 14×
• Goolsby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-13· cited 14×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-01· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-01· cited 10×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-27· cited 9×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-13· cited 8×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-22· cited 7×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-28· cited 6×
• Peralta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-04· cited 5×
• Brookins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 5×
• Willie Andrew Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-01· cited 4×
• Baxter v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 3×
• ULTRA TELECOM, INC. v. MERCHANT Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 1×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-11· cited 1×
• Arthur Alexander Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• Galmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-15
• Lionel Dely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-03-13
• Bernard Arnold, Sr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-27

Cites

38 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Garza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 192×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Holcomb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 95×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 89×
• Al-Amin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 78×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 53×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 38×
• Abernathy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-01· cited 35×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 32×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 29×
• Kellibrew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-02· cited 28×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 28×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-06· cited 23×
• Mister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 22×