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.

• “a jury-instruction error is harmless when it is highly probable that (the error) did not contribute to the verdict”
• an instructional error is harmless when it is “highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict”
• “‘Decisions regarding relevance are committed to the sound discretion of the trial court.’”
• flight from the crime scene reflects consciousness of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 27×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-23· cited 26×
• Thrift v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 16×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 14×
• O'neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 12×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 10×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 6×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 3×
• Rana v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Schmitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06
• David Michael Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-23
• Barry Mullins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-08

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• Booth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 59×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 44×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 24×
• Woolfolk v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 22×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 21×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 19×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 17×
• Hannah v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-07-12· cited 15×
• Reddick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 12×