Morris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• absent stipulation, the jury may be told that a polygraph was administered only to explain an actor’s conduct and motives if those are “matters concerning which the truth must be found”
• absent stipulation, the jury may be told that a polygraph was administered only to explain an actor’s conduct and motives if those are “matters concerning which the truth must be found”
• evidence that a suspect was ruled out on the basis of a negative polygraph test was “not admissible to explain [the] conduct” of either that suspect or police; “the conduct of the police” was not “relevant to any issue in the trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 75×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 68×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 53×
• Fargason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 48×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-03· cited 10×
• Parrott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-15· cited 10×
• Parfenuk v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-13· cited 8×
• Carlisle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-02-04· cited 6×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 4×
• Dorminey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-08· cited 3×
• Corn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-21· cited 2×
• Reginald Parrott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-15
• Nathaniel Anthony Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-12

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• State v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 150×
• Newberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-09-27· cited 14×
• Cromer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-01· cited 14×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 14×
• Paquin v. Town of Tyrone
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-09· cited 4×