Patterson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• an expert witnesses may not testify to truthfulness or credibility, and attacking a witness’s credibility does not “open the door” to such testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hoglund v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-03-08· cited 176×
• DAMEROW v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-06· cited 38×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-17· cited 35×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28· cited 31×
• Bly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 30×
• Higuera-Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 26×
• Koonce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 24×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-25· cited 20×
• Axelburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-31· cited 16×
• Hilliard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-23· cited 16×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-10· cited 15×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-14· cited 9×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-24· cited 7×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-10· cited 5×
• In the Interest of T. O. J.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-18· cited 4×
• In Re TOJ
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-18
• Robert Dipietro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• Russell Todd Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-15
• Larry Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28
• Mark A. Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-02-11

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-16· cited 146×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 83×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 70×
• State v. Oliver
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-11· cited 58×
• Roberson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-12· cited 43×
• Mann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-17· cited 42×
• Gosnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-09· cited 36×
• Eberhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-10· cited 29×
• Harper v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-15· cited 28×
• Guest v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-15· cited 22×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-20· cited 10×
• Gorski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 10×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-21· cited 6×