McClain v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the comment flagged by the appellant “was made after the prosecutor outlined the evidence showing [appellant’s] intent, and the remarks were clearly responsive to [appellant’s
• distinguishing those cases where the potential juror had a close relationship with the parties or the victim
• describing a “golden rule” argument as “[a]ny argument, regardless of nomenclature, which importunes the jury to place itself in the position of the victim for any purpose.”
• allowing victim-impact evidence when it did not encourage comparative judgments and was not a “detailed narrative of the emotional and economic suffering of the community”
• allowing victim-impact evidence when it did not encourage comparative judgments and was not a \detailed narrative of the emotional and economic suffering of the community\
• finding, where defendant argued that the prosecutor, rather than the trial court, read written questions to defendant allegedly in violation of OCGA § 17-10-1.2(b)(6

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 92×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Fults v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 89×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Heidler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 77×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 74×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 73×

Cites

63 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Gregg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-10-17· cited 190×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Pulliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24· cited 156×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 95×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 92×