Merritt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court abused its discretion under Rule 403 by allowing the State to question a defense witness about a prior unconfirmed allegation of sexual battery against his patients
• “[A] victim’s description of prior acts of domestic violence against her to her family and friends carries an increased level of trustworthiness.”
• defendant was unable to show plain error for admission of evidence of prior acts of domestic violence against the victim because such evidence contradicted his accident defense
• evidence was sufficient to support aggravated assault family violence where defendant shot and killed his wife and mother to his children, and evidence 9 authorized the jury to reject defendant’s accident theory
• no clear and obvious error to admit un-objected-to hearsay because the trial court could conclude that the statements had suf- ficient guarantees of trustworthiness to satisfy the residual hearsay exception under OCGA § 24-8-807
• trial court did not err by refusing to give self-defense charge where appellant pointed to no evidence that shooting the victim was necessary to defend himself or any third person from imminent use of unlawful force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 41×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 25×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 6×
• Brookins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 5×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 3×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 2×
• Jason Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-01-22
• Walmart Stores East, Lp v. Bettie Leverette
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-10
• ORTHO SPORT & SPINE PHYSICIANS, LLC v. JOHN ERNEST SNOWDEN
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-21
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20
• Foots v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Alexander Osborne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-08-20
• Dees v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Diego Camilo Portilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-30
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Snow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

26 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×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 67×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Venturino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 46×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Chrysler Grp. LLC v. Walden
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 39×
• CHRYSLER GROUP LLC v. WALDEN
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 38×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Rivera v. the State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 35×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 27×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 27×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 26×