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.

• finding no error in the trial court’s denial of a motion to excuse for cause two potential jurors who were former law enforcement officers
• venue for kidnapping with bodily injury lies within the county where the victim is seized
• instruction permissible when court did not equate reasonable doubt with “grave uncertainty” or “actual substantial doubt”
• instruction permissible when court did not equate reasonable doubt with “grave uncertainty” or “actual substantial doubt”
• instruction permissible when court did not equate reasonable doubt with \grave uncertainty\ or \actual substantial doubt\
• prior to 2009, venue for kidnapping was the county from which the victim is abducted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sears v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-29· cited 293×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Tharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-17· cited 88×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 79×
• Lynd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 75×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 71×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Fugate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 54×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 41×
• Perkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 37×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-14· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Bounds v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-27· cited 4,812×
• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Johnson v. Avery
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 1,359×
• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Garrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-28· cited 1,001×
• United States v. Loud Hawk
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-03· cited 786×
• Waller v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 659×
• Heath v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 631×
• Harris v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 618×
• Beecher v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-23· cited 283×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×