Napier 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 OCGA § 15-12-133 by prohibiting questions about whether prospective jurors would harbor bias toward the defendants because of their status as prison escapees, although the error was harmless
• evidence that defendant had been in prison and had escaped was admissible to prove motive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Glidewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-27· cited 25×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-30· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-01· cited 22×
• Reddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-18· cited 22×
• Edmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 21×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 20×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-30· cited 17×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-26· cited 16×
• Lanham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-01· cited 14×
• Hightower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-14· cited 13×
• Shelton v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 13×
• Charles Edward Owens v. Gregory McLaughlin
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-10-24· cited 12×
• Castillo-Solis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 12×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 7×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-20· cited 7×
• Epps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 5×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 4×

Cites

21 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×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 243×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 72×
• Bundren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-03· cited 71×
• Harwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 70×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 52×
• McPherson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 34×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 25×
• Milner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 21×
• Ottis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-07· cited 20×
• McWhorter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 15×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 14×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 14×
• Schiefelbein v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-31· cited 12×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 10×