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.

• noting that this Court “should hesitate long before holding unconstitutional the statutes” at issue because that “would strike down a large body” of the law
• noting that this Court “should hesitate long before holding unconstitutional the statutes” at issue because that “would strike down a large body” of the law
• admissibility of declaration does not depend upon length of time between declaration and death of the declarant, but upon declarant’s mind at the time of declaration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 81×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-05· cited 77×
• Herndon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-05-24· cited 59×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1936-02-18· cited 54×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 39×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-06-15· cited 37×
• Brantley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-11-20· cited 34×
• Paras v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-02· cited 25×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-28· cited 24×
• Hardin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-01-27· cited 23×
• State v. Shepherd Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-23· cited 23×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 23×
• Miles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1936-02-20· cited 23×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1935-12-16· cited 16×
• Wheeler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-01-07· cited 13×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-01-12· cited 11×
• Ayers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-09-11· cited 8×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1936-11-18· cited 8×
• REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. ETERNAL VIGILANCE ACTION, INC. (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 8×
• Stembridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1950-07-12· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Clyde Mattox v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-11-14· cited 1,086×
• People v. Adams
  New York Court of Appeals· 1903-11-15· cited 144×
• Woods v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1914-04-15· cited 77×
• George v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1897-05-11· cited 74×
• Bradley v. State ex rel. Solicitor-General
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-07-10· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Kalck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-03-17· cited 64×
• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1878-08-15· cited 57×
• People v. Cook
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1907-02-05· cited 43×
• State v. Page
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1899-06-10· cited 37×
• State v. Duff
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1909-10-19· cited 35×
• State v. Stephenson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1904-05-07· cited 31×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-05-10· cited 30×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1848-01-15· cited 27×
• Gillis v. Bowman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-06-22· cited 26×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-01-13· cited 26×
• Marcus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1919-06-14· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Bednorciki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1919-03-10· cited 24×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-12-14· cited 23×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1919-04-18· cited 22×
• Battle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1885-01-06· cited 17×