Hill v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing the trial court’s obligation to investigate the possible discharge of a juror if the jury has begun to deliberate and the juror has participated in those deliberations
• finding the prosecutor’s statement, “nobody knows the motive but [defendant], and he’s not talking,” was improper, but curable by trial court’s instruction that the jury was to disregard the statement and note that a defendant does not have to prove his own innocence
• A trial court has an obligation to investigate the need to excuse an allegedly incapacitated juror, and this is “especially true where the jury has begun its deliberations and the juror has participated in those deliberations.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• where jury knew from the circumstance of a jailhouse murder that defendant was an inmate, and where the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming, the introduction of similar transaction evidence without proper Williams findings was harmless
• brevity of religious references did not warrant overturning sentence
• brevity of religious references did not warrant overturning sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-11-22· cited 208×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Head v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 133×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• Carruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 73×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 68×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 51×
• Speed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 49×
• Greene v. Upton
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-06-28· cited 44×
• Trammel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 44×
• Osborne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 43×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Duren v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 2,373×
• Parker v. Levy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 1,846×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 100×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 98×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-26· cited 95×