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.

• bifurcation was necessary to keep evidence of a prior conviction from “a captive audience of jurors who were constantly reminded, as they were considering [the defendant’s] guilt, that, as a convicted felon, he was a person of bad character with a propensity to commit crimes”
• reversing conviction where accident was a viable defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• London v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-08· cited 17×
• Emilio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-10· cited 17×
• Vann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-12· cited 10×
• Starling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-21· cited 5×
• Laye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-20· cited 2×
• Fontaine v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-06
• Michael Gene Fontaine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-09-25

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 117×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-26· cited 15×
• Foote v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-07· cited 6×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 6×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-01-25· cited 5×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-25· cited 3×