Pierce v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[voluntary, spontaneous outbursts that are not made in response to any form of custodial questioning or interrogation are admissible at trial”
• sheriff testified that his comments that “ ‘we have bodies’ ” and “ ‘gut up and be a man about it’ ” were not intended to prompt or goad the defendant into making incriminating statements
• “ ‘There is no burden on State officials to prevent (a) defendant from talking about the incident if he wishes to do so. Simply stated they must not interrogate but they need not refuse to listen.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-06· cited 21×
• Tennyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 19×
• Haggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-24· cited 11×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-25· cited 9×
• Pasuer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-07· cited 8×
• Pinckney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-28· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-08· cited 5×
• Rodney Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pollard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-14· cited 57×
• Guess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 36×
• Happoldt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 31×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 31×
• Pace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-03· cited 17×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-25· cited 16×
• Zubiadul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-10-18· cited 15×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-05· cited 8×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-10-12· cited 4×
• Heflin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-15· cited 3×