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.

• statement that “ ‘(y)our quickest way to get(to see your children)... or your quickest way to take a large load off your shoulders, is just to tell the truth’ ” did not offer an improper hope of benefit
• no improper hope of benefit under OCGA § 24-8-824 where a detective told the defendant that “your quickest way to get to see your children or your quickest 13 way to take a large load off your shoulders, is just to tell the truth” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cushenberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 24×
• Shepard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 19×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 12×
• SMITH v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 12×
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• MEDDINGS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-14· cited 2×
• Budhani v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Dean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 62×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 48×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 12×
• Willoughby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 6×