Fletcher v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that any error arising from the jury’s presence during the preliminary examination was harmless because “the admissions were in fact free and voluntary, and were therefore properly receivable in evidence,” but ultimately reversing conviction due to insufficient evidence
• “[b]ut grant[ing] that the same rule holds with respect to criminating admissions as with respect to confessions of guilt . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Stepney
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-08-30· cited 222×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-04-02· cited 146×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-06-08· cited 115×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-04-25· cited 78×
• Weaver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-11-15· cited 71×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 64×
• Powers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-01-24· cited 43×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-09-29· cited 37×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-08-10· cited 36×
• Norrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-09-19· cited 34×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1908-03-27· cited 31×
• Rawlings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-11-25· cited 28×
• McCloud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-05-17· cited 28×
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-04-11· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-05· cited 24×
• HARRIS, Alias WILLIAMS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-09-13· cited 23×
• Elliott v. Fulton County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-11-05· cited 23×
• Bloodworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1961-02-09· cited 22×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1908-11-11· cited 22×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Woolfolk v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-02-11· cited 64×
• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1879-09-15· cited 50×
• Covington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1887-10-14· cited 50×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1880-09-15· cited 25×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1880-02-15· cited 17×
• Kennedy v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society
  California Supreme Court· 1869-07-01· cited 12×
• McDonald v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1884-02-09· cited 12×