Potts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing jurors to take notes
• finding that the defendant \withdrew his request after the trial court gave him time to reconsider and reflect on the consequences of self-representation\
• offering to “give dead bodies” admissible to show character even if the defendant had not committed additional murders
• in absence of trial transcript, requirement of Pope satisfied by testimony of witnesses from original trial to prove commission of crime
• in absence of trial transcript, requirement of Pope satisfied by testimony of witnesses from original trial to prove commission of crime
• no denial of right to self-representation where accused unequivocally withdrew his request to proceed pro se after having been informed of the dangers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Nash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 122×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-06· cited 57×
• State v. Gonzales
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1991-01-10· cited 56×
• State v. Teague
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-03-27· cited 55×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 51×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 49×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• Colwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 41×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 31×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-15· cited 31×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-08· cited 28×
• Perkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-14· cited 28×
• Wiggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• United States v. Jorn
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 2,215×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-12· cited 166×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×
• Pulliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24· cited 156×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×