Higgenbottom 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 the death of a witness did not constitute prejudice to the defendant where the witness died “prior to the attachment of his constitutional rights to a speedy trial”
• interview of defendant during investigative process could not be equated with actual knowledge of perpetrator’s identity
• “Under OCGA § 17-3-2 (2), the applicable statute of limitation is tolled during any period in which the person committing the crime is unknown or the crime is unknown.” (punctuation and footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• Sosniak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 77×
• State v. Buckner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 57×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 27×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 23×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 19×
• Cash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 13×
• Royal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-07· cited 11×
• Goddard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-15· cited 11×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-02· cited 5×
• Priest v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 5×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 5×
• GRAY v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-08-08· cited 4×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 3×
• Terrence Terrell Beavers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 2×
• Allen Goddard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-15
• Angelia Countryman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-18
• Ryan Alexander Duke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-12

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 168×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• Haisman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 75×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Nelloms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 61×
• Higgenbottom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-10· cited 45×
• Wooten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 44×
• Mullinax v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 39×
• Hester v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-24· cited 30×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 29×
• Fallen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 22×
• Wimberly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 21×
• Beasley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-07· cited 20×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 14×
• Herndon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-25· cited 11×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-27· cited 8×