Mitchell 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 probative value of the other-act evidence “was not diminished by temporal remoteness, as the events were separated by only two years”
• concluding that the State had an important prosecutorial need for other-act evidence to prove intent where the appellant argued that 37 he was merely present at the crime scene and did not share the intent of the primary assailant
• concluding that any slight differences between the prior acts and the charged offenses were “not so significant such that it would have been an abuse of discretion to conclude that the similarities gave the other-acts evidence substantial probative value”
• concluding that any differences between the prior acts and the charged offenses were “not so significant such that it would 13 have been an abuse of discretion to conclude that the similarities gave the other-acts evidence substantial probative value”
• holding that, where the defendant was charged with malice murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and other crimes, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting other-act evidence of a prior armed robbery for the purpose of showing intent
• “[A] defendant who enters a not guilty plea makes intent a material issue, and the State may prove intent by qualifying Rule 404(b) evidence absent affirmative steps by the defendant to remove intent as an issue.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• ROOKS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 20×
• Pauldo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Jonathan Harold Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-13
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Bennie Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-02-21
• Bennie Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-13
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02
• Burden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-26· cited 65×
• Booth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 59×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 39×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 38×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 37×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 36×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 24×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 20×
• Richards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 14×
• Kellam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 12×
• Hounkpatin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 12×