Roberts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• considering the circumstances surrounding the rape, evidence supported finding of requisite force even though no physical evidence of sexual assault and victim testified that she was scared based upon what she had seen in the movies not based on any action or statement of defendant
• considering the circumstances surrounding the rape, evidence supported finding of requisite force even though no physical evidence of sexual assault and victim testified that she was scared based upon what she had seen in the movies not based on any action or statement of defendant
• “[D]elay in reporting an alleged rape goes to the credibility of the [alleged child] victim, which is solely a jury question.”
• evidence that defendant drove victim to a hotel, gave her liquor, refused to take her back to her friends, and continued his sexual advances despite her resistance, provided ample evidence of force by intimidation
• evidence that defendant drove victim to a hotel, gave her liquor, refused to take her back to her friends, and continued his sexual advances despite her resistance, provided ample evidence of force by intimidation
• “It is ... for the jury to determine whether the victim consented or whether any lack of resistance sprang from reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm, violence, or other dangerous consequences to herself or another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-03· cited 67×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-05· cited 28×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-26· cited 25×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-27· cited 25×
• Wightman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-17· cited 16×
• Bradberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 15×
• Pye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-04· cited 15×
• Haynes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-19· cited 13×
• Johns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-12· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-02· cited 9×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-01· cited 8×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-14· cited 7×
• Mack v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-12· cited 6×
• State v. P.H.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2002-08-02· cited 6×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-14· cited 5×
• Chalvatzis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-19· cited 5×
• Zepp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-18· cited 5×
• Hutchens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-20· cited 5×
• Benham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-14· cited 5×
• Bakyayita v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-31· cited 4×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-27· cited 45×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24· cited 43×
• Raines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-01· cited 24×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-17· cited 24×
• Herrin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-06· cited 23×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 20×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 19×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-24· cited 8×