Harris 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 the erroneous admission of “powerful and highly prejudicial” other-acts evidence was not harmless, in part because the State emphasized that the evidence showed the appellant’s criminal propensity
• referring to closing argument when evaluating whether improperly admitted evidence was harmful
• “[I]f the wrongly admitted evidence . . . was important to proving an element of the State’s case—only the most compelling properly admitted evidence of guilt might prevent reversal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Jester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Ealey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Jimmy Collum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-27
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-03

Cites

41 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 84×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 79×
• United States v. Robert McCarrick
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-06-18· cited 70×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• State v. Frost
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 60×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 57×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 45×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 41×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 39×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 37×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 32×
• Daughtie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 31×
• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×