Ellis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “an appealing party may not use its brief to expand its enumeration of error by arguing the incorrectness of a ruling not mentioned in the enumeration of the errors”
• the jury was authorized to conclude that the defendant raped the victim when the victim explained she had sexual intercourse only because the defendant had a knife in his hand
• “an appealing party may not use its brief to expand its enumeration of errors by arguing the incorrectness of a trial court ruling not mentioned in the enumeration of the errors”
• “[T]he failure to request a jury instruction on a lesser included offense cannot support a claim of ineffective assistance where . . . the evidence does not reasonably raise the issue that [the defendant] may be guilty only of the lesser crimes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-30· cited 17×
• Glaze v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-25· cited 15×
• Horne v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 6×
• Mack v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-12· cited 6×
• ALLEN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-05-03· cited 6×
• Barlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24· cited 5×
• Pendleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-07· cited 3×
• Simon v. State.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-27· cited 3×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-16· cited 3×
• Woods v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-16· cited 1×
• Shavon Jabbar Prescott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• Edward Eugene Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-22
• Brandon Pendleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-07
• Deonte Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-06
• Walter Maxon Simon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-27
• Donnie Lee Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-30
• Frederick Lamar Barlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24
• Keith Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-16
• Terrell Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-03-27

Cites

46 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Goss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 67×
• SOSNIAK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 61×
• Boatright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-08· cited 37×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-21· cited 36×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 34×
• Coggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 32×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 32×
• Osborne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-29· cited 29×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 27×
• Littleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-18· cited 26×
• Belins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-19· cited 26×
• Blackshear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 26×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-20· cited 25×
• Hendricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 25×
• Cooke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-23· cited 22×