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 trial court’s error in admitting hearsay by two declarants to explain an officer’s conduct was harmless because one of the declarants later told the jury the same information
• concluding it was highly probable that officer’s hearsay testimony to explain his conduct, which was cumulative, did not contribute to the guilty verdicts
• where defendant testifies she had no felony convictions, it was error to allow the State to impeach with evidence of misdemeanor convictions
• State is authorized to present evidence of prior convictions when a defendant makes his good character an issue at trial
• the general rule is that an officer cannot testify to hearsay statements in order to show his motive or explain his conduct
• admission of defendant’s prior convictions was harmless in light of defendant’s admissions during his testimony before the State brought up his convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 55×
• Nix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 35×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 34×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 34×
• Carrie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 25×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 25×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• McCray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 23×
• DELOACH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 19×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 19×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 18×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 17×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 15×
• Ros v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 66×
• Eckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 62×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 60×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• State v. Braddy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-22· cited 48×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-07· cited 42×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 38×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-15· cited 35×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 29×
• Swett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-26· cited 28×
• Drane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 27×
• Render v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 26×