Harper 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 trial witness’s] testimony regarding [the defendant’s] recruitment of him to be the active perpetrator of the armed robbery” is an “example[ ] of direct, not circumstantial, evidence of [the defendant’s] guilt”
• “Whether a person is a party to a crime may be inferred from that person’s presence, companionship, and conduct before, during, and after the crime.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “[D]irect evidence is not converted into circumstantial evidence by a witness’s credibility or lack thereof, and the weight and reliability of such evidence is for the jury’s resolution.” (citation omitted)
• “Whether a person is a party to a crime may be inferred from that person’s presence, companionship, and conduct before, during, and after the crime.” 19 (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 28×
• Cisneros v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 22×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 20×
• Gittens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 11×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 11×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 8×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 4×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 4×
• Satterfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 2×
• Pindling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• LONON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-07
• Dontavis Clay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-14
• Davy MacIo Holloman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-07-23
• Narcis Pavlov v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-02
• Vincent Ivory Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-15
• EVANS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30

Cites

8 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×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Mickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-01· cited 41×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-11-02· cited 35×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 27×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 25×
• Conway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 24×