Rivers 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 the failure to limit jury’s consideration of similar transac tion evidence to the purpose for which admitted was error
• conviction reversed where charge authorized jury to consider similar transactions as proof of the charged offenses
• trial court improperly instructed the jury it could consider similar transaction evidence to prove crimes charged or an element of the offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-03· cited 67×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 25×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-30· cited 15×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-22· cited 14×
• Caldwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 11×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-21· cited 8×
• Shy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-29· cited 6×
• Dodd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-19· cited 6×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-20· cited 5×
• Corbitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 4×
• BROWN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-08· cited 3×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 3×
• Rhodes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05· cited 1×
• William Maurice Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Earnest Rhodes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05
• William Dodd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-19

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 157×
• Foskey v. Foskey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-14· cited 72×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Moak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-28· cited 27×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-01· cited 9×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-07-25· cited 7×