Lester v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• The absence of a parent, especially when the juvenile has acquiesced in nevertheless being interviewed, is “merely one factor a trial court should consider in its totality-of-the- circumstances evaluation of the voluntariness of a juvenile’s statement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Bedford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 12×
• State v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 5×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 5×
• State v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 1×
• Travion Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-04-20
• State v. Kristin Ward
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Quintanar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• JONATHAN CARTER v. JESSICA DAVIS
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-08-19
• Ellison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21

Cites

32 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-23· cited 135×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-21· cited 106×
• Southall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 68×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 50×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 35×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 30×
• Eller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 30×
• Dozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 29×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-19· cited 28×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 28×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Coley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 24×
• Byrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-29· cited 22×
• State v. Sumlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-30· cited 19×
• London v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-08· cited 17×