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.

• finding harmful error where prosecutor told jury that state had not called witness because “she was too terrified to come in and testify against the defendant”
• finding harmful error where prosecutor told jury that state had not called witness because \she was too terrified to come in and testify against the defendant\
• setting forth “highly probable test” as standard for determining whether nonconstitutional error was harmless
• even when error is shown, reversal is not warranted when it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the jury’s verdict
• even when error is shown, reversal is not warranted when it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the jury's verdict
• no harmful error where it is “ “highly probable that the error did not contribute to the judgment’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 179×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-26· cited 101×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Wallin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 95×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-22· cited 83×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schneble v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-21· cited 1,324×
• Mitchum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-07-15· cited 175×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1947-09-06· cited 57×