Rawls 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 “evidence of flight may be admissible as circumstantial evidence of guilt”
• holding that the victim’s “close relationship with each of these witnesses gave her statements to them about the abuse she was experiencing from her boyfriend sufficient guarantees of trustworthiness to be admissible under Rule 807”
• holding that trial counsel was not deficient in failing to file “a motion to suppress on the ground that the search warrant was based on stale information” because such a motion “would have failed”
• holding that testimony about the defendant’s prior violent acts against his girlfriend showed “the nature of the relationship between [the defendant] and the victim [and] shed[ ] light on [the defendant]’s motive in committing the offenses charged” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• applying plain-error standard where appellant objected to testimony at trial only on grounds other than those raised on appeal
• reviewing trial court’s overruling of defendant’s Rule 807 objections for an abuse of discretion, while reviewing the trial court’s admission of the testimony to which defendant did not object only for plain error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 25×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Sconyers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 9×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 8×
• State v. LEDBETTER (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 8×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 7×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-29· cited 7×
• State v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 7×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 6×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 6×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 4×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-11-05· cited 3×
• Arnsdorff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24· cited 2×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-04-19· cited 1×
• Roland Croyle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Vincent Ivory Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-15

Cites

24 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×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Renner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-07· cited 120×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Brewner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 74×
• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 45×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 27×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 20×
• Lemon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 19×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 18×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 17×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 12×