Gardner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• modus operandi, course of conduct, and bent of mind are proper purposes for introduction of similar transaction evidence
• “The state is only required to prove the accused committed a similar transaction by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• requested charge must be “legal, apt and precisely adjusted to some principle involved in the case and be authorized by the evidence”
• “[C]urative instructions are a proper remedy” when a defendant’s character is improperly placed into evidence.
• similarities included use of handgun, commission of offense with little or no provocation, late at night, and with others, fleeing the scene, and attempting to cause serious injury or death
• \A trial court's discretion in granting or refusing to grant a mistrial should not be disturbed unless a mistrial is essential to the preservation of the right to a fair trial.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 55×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 49×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-20· cited 48×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 44×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 32×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 29×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 26×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 25×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-26· cited 24×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-28· cited 23×
• Flowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-02· cited 20×
• Clemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-20· cited 19×
• Gadson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 17×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-27· cited 15×
• Silverio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-13· cited 14×
• McMahon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-25· cited 13×
• Reedman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-19· cited 13×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-31· cited 13×
• Jennings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-09· cited 12×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 118×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 96×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 72×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 36×
• Massey v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-05· cited 34×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-28· cited 29×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 27×
• Salcedo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-15· cited 22×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-29· cited 18×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-30· cited 15×
• Harmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-28· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 12×
• Estep v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-02-20· cited 12×
• Beach v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-26· cited 8×