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.

• holding that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the defendant’s conviction for false imprisonment where the defendant grabbed the victim by her hair and dragged her from room to room
• involving a defendant who, while holding the victim in her apartment against her will, “grabbed the victim by the hair and dragged her from room to room in the apartment while beating her.... took her clothes off and ‘threw1 her in the shower”
• trial court did not commit reversible error by giving similar terroristic threats charge although indictment charged threat of murder
• family violence battery conviction should have been merged with family violence aggravated battery conviction
• defendant “grabbed the victim by the hair and dragged her from room to room ... while beating her”
• “To sustain a conviction for false imprisonment, the State must show evidence of an arrest, confinement, or detention, and detention for a brief amount of time is sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Chitwood
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-04-05· cited 119×
• Clement v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-20· cited 46×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-24· cited 16×
• Schneider v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-26· cited 16×
• Zamudio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-13· cited 16×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-27· cited 9×
• Jones v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 9×
• Moore v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-01· cited 8×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-27· cited 3×
• McKenney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-12· cited 1×
• United States v. Andrew Jackson Chitwood
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-04-05
• Carlos Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-20
• Antonio Jesus Zamudio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19
• Gregory Wilkey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-20
• Diego Ramos-Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-05-12

Cites

27 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×
• Garza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 192×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-25· cited 135×
• Head v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 133×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-13· cited 114×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• Dean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 62×
• Austin v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 56×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-28· cited 31×
• Rehberger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-12-18· cited 30×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-15· cited 25×
• McClure v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-05-29· cited 24×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-14· cited 21×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 19×
• Hammonds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-28· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 15×