Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that trial courts cannot exclude expert testimony when identification is essential and there is no corroborating evidence
• appropriate to admit expert testimony involving counterintuitive issue such as absence of expected correlation between witness's expression of confidence and actual accuracy
• appropriate to admit expert testimony involving counterin-tuitive issue such as absence of expected correlation between wit ness’s expression of confidence and actual accuracy
• the trial court, in its sound discretion, may admit expert testimony regarding the reliability of eyewitness testimony
• expert testimony not necessary because an independent witness’s identification of defendant was not made under stress and was not “based on generalized racial characteristics but on individual details”
• “[T]he admission or exclusion of [expert testimony] ‘lies within the sound discretion of the trial court, whose decision will not be disturbed on appeal absent a clear abuse of discretion.’ [Cit.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-11· cited 119×
• Corrothers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-06-26· cited 99×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• State v. Clopten
  Utah Supreme Court· 2009-12-18· cited 86×
• State v. Coley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-13· cited 71×
• State v. Outing
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-08-31· cited 60×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 44×
• Benford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 42×
• Curtis Giovanni Flowers v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-11-13· cited 42×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Christie
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-12-19· cited 34×
• Glass v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 34×
• DeLoach v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 31×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 27×
• Armstead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-15· cited 22×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 22×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 21×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-16· cited 19×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 18×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. McDonald
  California Supreme Court· 1984-11-21· cited 436×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred SMITH, Defendant-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-06-06· cited 124×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 56×
• State v. McClendon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-05-11· cited 52×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-18· cited 46×
• Gardiner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 30×
• State v. Gaines
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-10-25· cited 28×
• Norris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-23· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-05· cited 15×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-11· cited 11×