Leonard 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 an expert may be examined about the hearsay upon which his opinion rests in order to allow the trier of fact to evaluate the opinion
• testifying expert not to serve as conduit for opinions of others
• expert may give opinion based on his own examination or observation or “upon any state of facts, supported by some evidence in the case, which he assumes as true”
• “The evidence suggests no occasion for [Wright] to have left his fingerprints there except during the crime, and the evidence authorized the jury to conclude that every reasonable hypothesis was excluded except [his] guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 47×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-17· cited 41×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 40×
• Columbus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 35×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-07· cited 18×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 16×
• O'Connell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 15×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 13×
• Davenport v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-22· cited 12×
• In the Interest of H. A.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-14· cited 12×
• Austin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-07-15· cited 10×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-14· cited 9×
• FORD v. TATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 9×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-16· cited 4×
• Webb v. Thomas Trucking, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-04· cited 3×
• James Kershaw v. Princeton Properties Management, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-25· cited 3×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-16· cited 3×
• Crowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-06· cited 2×
• Cornell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-07-14· cited 1×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-01-07· cited 74×
• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• White v. Georgia Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-07-15· cited 57×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-25· cited 54×
• DeKalb County v. Trustees, Decatur Lodge No. 1602
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-11-22· cited 48×
• King v. Browning
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-17· cited 43×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-12· cited 42×
• Doctors Hospital of Augusta, Inc. v. Bonner
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-15· cited 36×
• Lyon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-28· cited 19×
• Loper v. Drury
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 19×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-28· cited 15×
• Peters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 13×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-19· cited 9×
• McEver v. Worrell Enterprises
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-20· cited 7×
• Roberts v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 6×
• Stephens v. Howard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-09· cited 4×
• Kier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-13· cited 3×