Maxwell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• neither expert's own investigation nor his expertise as a forensic pathologist led to his conclusion that death was a homicide
• neither expert’s own investigation nor his expertise as a forensic pathologist led to his conclusion that death was a homicide
• error for medical examiner to testify that death was a homicide when his expertise was not needed or used in reaching that conclusion
• notice held insufficient because State gave no notice of intent to introduce evidence of prior bad acts and merely included information about such acts in a 780-page file given to defendant
• overruled on other grounds by Wall v. State, 269 Ga. 506, 508-509 (2) (500 SE2d 904) (1998)
• error to permit medical examiner to testify that manner of death was homicide where witness could not determine cause of death, relied solely on evidence of other lay witnesses, and admitted opinion was based on factors the jury could determine for themselves

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• State of Iowa v. Hillary Lee Tyler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-06-30· cited 153×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 86×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 74×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-21· cited 67×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 56×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-14· cited 53×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-30· cited 46×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-22· cited 44×
• Wooten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 44×
• Bohannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-21· cited 44×
• Prater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-08· cited 42×
• Medlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-28· cited 41×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-03· cited 37×
• Columbus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 35×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lockhart v. Nelson
  Supreme Court· 1988-11-14· cited 1,183×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Gunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-05-09· cited 96×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-15· cited 52×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 48×
• Loggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-15· cited 24×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-04-04· cited 15×