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.

• holding that prosecutor’s “make them explain” argument in closing was not an improper shifting of the burden of proof
• holding that State’s “make them explain” argument did not impermissibly shift the burden of proof and did not comment on defendant’s failure to testify
• holding that a prosecutor can urge a jury to find a witness credible so long as the attorney does not give a personal opinion as to the witness’s credibility
• rejecting the contention that the State's \make them explain\ argument was burden shifting
• rejecting the contention that the State’s “make them explain” argument was burden shifting
• finding no error where “[t]he State’s argument that ‘no witnesses lied’ was in response to defense counsel’s claim . . . that State witnesses had lied, and the comment did not constitute the prosecutor’s personal opinion regarding the veracity of the witnesses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Carruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 73×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 72×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 65×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 63×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 47×
• Johnson v. Upton
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-08-23· cited 45×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• Lawler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 37×
• Slakman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-13· cited 35×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 35×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 33×

Cites

57 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×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• United States v. James Norton, United States of America v. Paul Fosco, James Pinckard, Paul A. Di Franco, James Norton, Defendants
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-03-16· cited 153×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 129×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Shirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 89×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×