Ledford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Georgia’s previous charge on alibi defense was inconsistent with the tenant that a criminal defendant carries no burden of proof whatsoever, and thus was likely to cause juror confusion, requiring a new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• House v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 125×
• State v. White
  Montana Supreme Court· 1965-08-27· cited 52×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 47×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-07-02· cited 45×
• Spurlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-05-26· cited 41×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-04-10· cited 25×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-05-09· cited 24×
• Sheffield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-06-18· cited 23×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-11-26· cited 16×
• Scudiere v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-12-04· cited 14×
• Stanley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-01-10· cited 13×
• Laney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-21· cited 12×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1965-09-20· cited 11×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-01-22· cited 11×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-11· cited 10×
• Paige v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-01-10· cited 7×
• Lord v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-01-13· cited 7×
• Gaily v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-02· cited 6×
• Vanleeward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-06-01· cited 5×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-06-08· cited 115×
• Swain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-09-25· cited 44×
• Glustrom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-02-14· cited 42×
• Geer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-11-09· cited 40×
• HARRIS, Alias WILLIAMS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-09-13· cited 23×
• Lampkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1916-04-11· cited 23×
• Reece v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-05-11· cited 22×
• Caison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1930-07-30· cited 21×
• Gentry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-03· cited 20×
• Ramsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-04-09· cited 20×
• Seymour v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-09-14· cited 19×
• Calhoun v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-10-15· cited 17×
• Justice v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-04-08· cited 9×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1911-01-31· cited 8×
• Adsmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1933-08-02· cited 8×
• Charlton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-03-06· cited 5×