Messer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to declare a mistrial and instead giving a curative instruction after the father of the victim lunged at the defendant and screamed, “you’ll pay,” “you’re liable,” and “you’re going to get it”
• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to declare a mistrial and instead giving a curative instruction after the father of the victim lunged at the defendant and screamed, “You’ll pay,” “You’re liable,” and “You’re going to get it”
• “Measures to be taken as a result of demonstrations and outbursts which occur during the course of a trial are matters within the trial court’s discretion unless a new trial is necessary to insure a fair trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 229×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 144×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 112×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-22· cited 98×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-04-21· cited 91×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 87×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 82×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 67×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-30· cited 58×
• Blankenship v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-19· cited 55×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 55×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-10· cited 50×

Cites

38 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×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Simmons v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 6,700×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Lego v. Twomey
  Supreme Court· 1972-01-12· cited 1,930×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Whitlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-06-21· cited 133×
• Pryor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-27· cited 128×
• House v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 125×
• Shy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-22· cited 100×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 95×
• Dampier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-20· cited 86×