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 text messages sent by the defendant were properly authenticated when an investigating officer testified that photos he took of the phone's screen were a fair and accurate representation of the messages that appeared on the phone to which the messages were sent
• affirming trial court’s admission of photographs of text messages from defendant’s phone taken by officer
• no unfair prejudice from video of sexual assault victim sobbing as he described sexual encounter with defendant, because video was “relevant as evidence of the crimes charged”
• “We review the trial court’s decision to admit evidence for an abuse of discretion.” (punctuation omitted)
• photos of text messages sent by the defendant were properly authenticated when an investigating officer testified that photos he took of the phone’s screen were a fair and accurate representation of the messages that appeared on the phone to which the messages were sent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• State v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 36×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• State v. Manuel T.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-11-19· cited 22×
• NICHOLSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 18×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 16×
• Conley v. Pate
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 10×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-19· cited 9×
• Salim Hamlett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-08· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• State v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 8×
• Sosebee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Madera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 4×
• DANIELS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-08· cited 3×
• BROWN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-08· cited 3×
• JORDAN v. MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. Marriott International, Inc. v. Jordan.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-28· cited 2×
• SEALS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-08· cited 1×
• WENDY JORDAN v. MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC A/K/A J.W. MARRIOTT ATLANTA BUCKHEAD
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-07-12

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Ewing v. California
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 1,555×
• Kentucky v. Stincer
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,461×
• United States v. Owens
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-23· cited 997×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• United States v. Smalls
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-05-03· cited 259×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• United States v. Jones
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-04-02· cited 93×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 83×
• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Brewner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 74×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 72×
• United States v. Daniel Troya
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-10-02· cited 56×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 35×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 33×
• Cotton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 30×
• Bolling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 25×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 23×