Howard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• admitting evidence of grooming, even if it incidentally places defendant’s character in issue, to explain victim’s unwillingness to disclose abuse
• admitting evidence of grooming, even if it incidentally places defendant's character in issue, to explain victim's unwillingness to disclose abuse
• “[t]he term ‘forcibly’ means acts of physical force, threats of death or physical bodily harm, or mental coercion, such as intimidation”
• no force shown where defendant talked his 15-year-old sister into engaging in sexual relations with him
• no evidence of force where defendant did nothing more than talk victim into engaging in sexual relations with him
• A sentence is void if it imposes a period of confinement greater than the statutory maximum for the offense.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 59×
• Perez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-11-27· cited 38×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-01· cited 37×
• Spargo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-29· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-08· cited 23×
• Blanton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-12· cited 18×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-27· cited 14×
• Mullis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-25· cited 14×
• State v. Meeks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-10· cited 13×
• O'Rourke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-19· cited 13×
• McGlocklin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-24· cited 12×
• Boileau v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-12· cited 10×
• State v. Godfrey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-15· cited 10×
• Morey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-03· cited 10×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-30· cited 10×
• Barclay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-10· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-10· cited 7×
• BACON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-19· cited 7×
• Rooney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-09· cited 6×
• Palatini v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 3×

Cites

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

• State v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 150×
• Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-11· cited 68×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 64×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 54×
• Kovacs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-31· cited 52×
• Roebuck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 49×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 46×
• State v. Layman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 42×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-08· cited 29×
• Love v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-10· cited 26×
• Godfrey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-08· cited 23×
• Upshaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-28· cited 22×
• Blackmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-04-14· cited 21×
• Siharath v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-19· cited 19×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-15· cited 18×
• Cleveland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-06-20· cited 15×
• Womack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-18· cited 14×
• Minter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-26· cited 14×
• McCoy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-27· cited 11×
• Yates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-02· cited 10×