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.

• holding that a promise not to press additional charges against a defendant was an impermissible hope of benefit rendering his subsequent confession inadmissible
• holding that a promise not to press additional charges against a defendant was an impermissible hope of benefit rendering his subsequent confession inadmissible
• explaining that, in addition to “a hope of benefit in the form of lesser punishment,” “the ‘reward’ of facing no charges ... is an impermissible hope of benefit” under OCGA § 24-3-50
• reversing and remanding for new trial where appellate court could not conclude that erroneous admission of evidence was harmless
• promise not to press charges related to weapon provided hope of receiving no punishment related to possession of weapon
• promise not to press charges related to weapon impermissibly provided hope of receiving no punishment for that offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Chulpayev
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 64×
• SOSNIAK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 61×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Edenfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 43×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 35×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• State v. Folsom
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 25×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Canty v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 22×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-16· cited 12×
• Morales v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-29· cited 7×
• Acosta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 6×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-23· cited 5×
• State v. Robinson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-07· cited 5×
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Duncan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-22· cited 4×
• Stidham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-26· cited 3×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Caffo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-01· cited 86×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 48×
• State v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 45×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 39×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-23· cited 38×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 37×
• State v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-05· cited 33×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-08· cited 25×
• Dyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-04· cited 25×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-19· cited 10×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 8×
• Givens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-30· cited 5×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 5×