Morton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The reason for [OCGA § 17-8-57] prohibiting the judge from intimating his opinion as to what has been proved is to keep the jury from being influenced, not to keep the judge from making up his own mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chumley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 31×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-25· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-10· cited 26×
• Quiller v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 24×
• In the Interest of S. U.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-06-08· cited 9×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-10-11· cited 4×
• Cotton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 4×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Holtzendorf v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-03-17· cited 34×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-02-18· cited 23×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-04-21· cited 11×
• Willard v. City of Eatonton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-09-14· cited 10×
• Sorrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1924-07-15· cited 4×