Horton 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 appellant could not “show that any error was obvious beyond reasonable dispute” because he “pointed to no law clearly demonstrating that [the witness could] be considered an accomplice”
• concluding that the appellant’s claim of prosecutorial misconduct by the State in allegedly allowing the medical examiner to testify falsely and therefore violate his due process right to a fair trial was not preserved because it was not raised at trial
• concluding that the court did not abuse its discretion when countering the potential effects of an allegedly prejudicial event by inquiring whether the jurors could remain impartial and instructing them to disregard the incident and only decide the case based on the evidence presented
• “[D]ecisions as to what witnesses and other evidence to present are matters of trial 11 strategy and are ineffective only if unreasonable ones that no competent attorney would make.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Because we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying Horton’s motion, we do not reach the ques- tion of whether he failed to preserve the issue.”
• “[T]he trial does not begin until the jury has been impaneled and sworn”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 22×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 15×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Kimbro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 13×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 10×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 9×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• BAKER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-22· cited 7×
• Dugar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 6×
• Whited v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 3×
• Justin St. Germain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-01-25
• Devin Hartman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Thomas Ary v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-02
• Jonathan Lamar Perkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-07-23
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26

Cites

39 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×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 56×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 46×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 45×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 32×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×