Foster v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• the failure of a trial court to instruct the jury on a defendant’s right to the presumption of innocence is error of such magnitude as to require automatic reversal
• the failure of a trial court to instruct the jury on a defendant's right to the presumption of innocence is error of such magnitude as to require automatic reversal
• reversible error when trial court fails to charge jury that defendant enters trial with a presumption of innocence in the defendant’s favor that remains with the defendant until rebutted by proof that satisfies the jury of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
• not error to give such charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Kesler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 71×
• Bradham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-24· cited 49×
• Patterson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-11-29· cited 41×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 31×
• Britt v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 30×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 20×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 18×
• Sheffield v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-05-27· cited 17×
• Tillman v. Massey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 15×
• Klahn v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2004-08-13· cited 14×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-27· cited 13×
• Perryman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-02-13· cited 13×
• Reaves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-06-23· cited 12×
• Havron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-04· cited 12×
• Parks v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1979-10-04· cited 10×
• Bankston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-23· cited 10×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-18· cited 137×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-09-29· cited 37×
• Ethridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-11-15· cited 36×
• Bland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-10-14· cited 33×
• Faulkner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-05-17· cited 25×
• Southern Railway Co. v. Barber
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1913-02-11· cited 16×
• Elder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1915-04-20· cited 14×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-02-14· cited 12×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1913-02-04· cited 11×
• Oliver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 7×
• Ealey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-01-26· cited 4×