Pitts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that Kim decision did not “undermine a trial court’s authority to control voir dire and properly inquire about a juror’s ability to be impartial”
• expert testimony that one bag contained cocaine was sufficient to sustain conviction for trafficking notwithstanding the fact that two other bags were not tested
• possession of 54 grams of 85 percent pure cocaine was sufficient to sustain conviction notwithstanding the state’s failure to test two of three bags of the drug
• trial court does not abuse discretion by inquiring into juror’s ability to be fair and impartial but may not rely on insufficient rehabilitative questions to reject clear evidence of potential juror’s bias
• trial court does not abuse its discretion by inquiring into juror’s ability to be fair and impartial but may not rely on insufficient rehabilitative questions to reject clear evidence of potential juror’s bias
• “Failure to make a meritless objection is not error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Reese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 204×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 46×
• Weeks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-24· cited 23×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-22· cited 22×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-05· cited 21×
• Kirkland v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-06· cited 21×
• Doss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-18· cited 20×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-12-06· cited 20×
• GARNER v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-19· cited 20×
• Ros v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 15×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-05· cited 14×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-10· cited 10×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-26· cited 10×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-04· cited 9×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 9×
• Remillard v. Longstreet Clinic, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-04-08· cited 7×
• Presley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-22· cited 7×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-09· cited 6×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 5×

Cites

64 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×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Chancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-13· cited 154×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Fults v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 89×
• Kim v. Walls
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-13· cited 75×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 61×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Speed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 49×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-28· cited 46×
• Walls v. Kim
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 44×
• Woodham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-24· cited 44×
• Mann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-17· cited 42×
• Bassett v. Lemacks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-07-01· cited 33×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-30· cited 32×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• Bacon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 30×