Robertson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no error found where court asked limited qualifying questions of jury panel in absence of defendant; however practice was criticized
• no error found where court asked limited qualifying questions of jury panel in absence of defendant; however practice was criticized
• prospective juror need not be ignorant of facts and issues involved in a case
• where unclear which of armed robbery and burglary was the underlying felony for a single felony murder conviction, trial court must merge armed robbery with felony murder as the most severe in terms of potential punishment
• defendant acted as “set up” man by supplying information about potential burglary targets
• trial court met with prospective jury members prior to voir dire, in the absence of defendant and his lawyer, and asked whether they were citizens of the county, whether they had served on the grand jury, and whether they would suffer any hardship if chosen to serve

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 75×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 50×
• Brady v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 43×
• Thorpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 42×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 33×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 22×
• English v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-25· cited 17×
• Height v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 16×
• House v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-06· cited 16×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 12×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-21· cited 12×
• State v. Kraus
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-07-13· cited 12×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-18· cited 9×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 7×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-21· cited 7×
• Avery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-13· cited 6×
• Crumpton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-19· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Kentucky v. Stincer
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,461×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• State v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 150×
• Steve M. Solomon, Jr., Inc. v. Edgar
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1955-05-31· cited 102×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-22· cited 98×
• Gunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-05-09· cited 96×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 89×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 85×
• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 69×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-07· cited 49×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 48×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-05· cited 46×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-09· cited 36×