Pearson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• party cannot during trial ignore what he thinks to be an injustice, take his chance on a favorable verdict, and complain later
• prosecutor “should not have included in her argument a reference to [defendant’s] pre-trial failure to raise the defense of justification”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 108×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 32×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 32×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 15×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-09· cited 14×
• Pena v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 12×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-30· cited 10×
• Sumlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-10· cited 9×
• Lipscomb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-09· cited 9×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 7×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 5×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 4×
• Lenoir v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-02· cited 4×
• Trammell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09· cited 4×

Cites

25 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Renner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-07· cited 120×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 117×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 86×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 51×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• Rickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 40×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 40×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 36×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 32×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 27×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 24×
• Contreras v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 19×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 16×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 15×