Holmes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• that jurors were personally close to murder victim and expressed doubts about their ability to remain impartial did not require their disqualification for cause
• where a prospective juror expresses “doubts” or “reservations” as to her ability to put aside personal experiences, failure to strike for cause is not an abuse of discretion
• “ ‘I would hope I could’ ” and “ ‘I can try’ ”
• trial court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to excuse a juror for cause who stated that she would “try” to put aside her emotions and consider the case based upon the evidence
• trial court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to excuse a juror for cause who stated that she would “try” to put aside her emotions and consider the case based upon the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fults v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 89×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Conaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 58×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 53×
• Corza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 46×
• Brady v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 43×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Kirkland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 34×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-17· cited 23×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×
• Doss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-18· cited 20×
• Herrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 20×
• Drake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-21· cited 17×
• Darnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-23· cited 16×
• Merneigh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 16×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-09· cited 16×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-22· cited 14×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Garland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 76×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-07· cited 49×
• Clifford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 14×