Finley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting claim based on trial judge’s interposing several questions to several witnesses because “the transcript reveal[ed] no expression or intimation of opinion by the trial court in the exchanges at issue”
• “A trial judge may propound questions to a witness to develop the truth of the case or to clarify testimony, and the extent of such an examination is a matter for the trial court’s discretion.”
• “[W]ords alone cannot constitute serious provocation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 46×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 35×
• State v. Henley
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-07-13· cited 34×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 29×
• Bamberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 18×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 17×
• Leonard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-27· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 14×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 13×
• Sallee v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 12×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 12×
• Rawls v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-17· cited 12×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 10×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-16· cited 8×
• Warbington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-05· cited 6×
• Mickens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16· cited 6×

Cites

21 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×
• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 114×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 72×
• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-12· cited 40×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 40×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-03· cited 35×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 22×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 21×
• Wyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 20×
• Riggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-06· cited 19×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 17×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 16×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 12×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 11×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-03-08· cited 6×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-08-17· cited 5×