Polite v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “statements by attorneys are not evidence” (punctuation omitted)
• explaining that “statements by attorneys are not evidence”
• “To authorize a jury instruction on a subject, there need only be produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.”
• “To authorize a jury instruction on a subject, there need only be produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.”
• “To authorize a jury instruction on a subject, there need only be produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.”
• a trial court does not err in giving a jury instruction that accurately states the law and is supported by slight evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Able v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-27· cited 21×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-27· cited 19×
• Bunkley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-24· cited 19×
• Zackery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 18×
• Chalk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-16· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-11· cited 14×
• Aguilera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-11· cited 13×
• Wilkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 12×
• Metoyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-08· cited 11×
• Boatwright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-13· cited 9×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 7×
• Elsasser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-08· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-04· cited 4×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-18· cited 3×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 3×
• Lawyers Title Insurance v. New Freedom Mortgage Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-09· cited 2×
• Lynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 2×
• Clement v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26· cited 2×
• Angela Wall v. Donny James
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-01-25

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-19· cited 37×
• Gaston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-19· cited 31×
• Randolph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 26×
• Crosby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-03· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-26· cited 23×
• Meadows v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-14· cited 21×
• Van Voltenburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-05-13· cited 18×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-12· cited 16×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-02· cited 13×
• Pickard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-27· cited 12×
• Saxon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-25· cited 10×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-24· cited 10×
• Slaughter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-08· cited 10×
• Goins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-18· cited 4×