Rucker 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, in a case under the former Evidence Code, that a claim that the trial court erred in not permitting the introduction of certain evidence was not preserved for review because the defendant did not seek to introduce the 20 evidence during trial
• finding no abuse of discretion in the trial court's denial of defendant's motion for mistrial because the court's curative instructions were sufficient to correct any error in the introduction of evidence relating to the defendant's alleged propensity for violence
• finding no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for mistrial because the court’s curative instructions were sufficient to correct any error in the introduction of evidence relating to the defendant’s alleged propensity for violence
• curative instruction sufficient to correct any error
• curative instruction sufficient to correct any error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 32×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 11×
• Eleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 3×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08· cited 2×
• Stephen L Rucker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-07-30
• Kelvin Lanier Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• Maddox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 45×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 44×
• McBee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-06· cited 34×
• Agee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 23×
• Chatman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 16×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×
• Boatman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 11×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 5×