Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant has right to opening and closing arguments where he offers no evidence other than his own testimony
• “matters not objected to at trial cannot be raised for the first time on appeal”
• a written confession of a defendant is admissible for impeachment purposes, without regard to whether the statement was voluntary
• failure to object to court's ruling on order of argument constitutes waiver
• failure to object to court’s ruling on order of argument constitutes waiver
• “[i]t is beyond question in this state that where an accused offers no testimony or evidence into the trial of a case, other than his own testimony, he has the right to the opening and closing arguments”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 72×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-01-09· cited 67×
• McDuffie v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-05· cited 52×
• Bowen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-01-18· cited 39×
• Robles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 38×
• State v. Byrd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 37×
• Majia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-01· cited 37×
• Burke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-03-07· cited 35×
• Helton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-03· cited 34×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-27· cited 33×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-25· cited 27×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-06· cited 25×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-09· cited 24×
• Warnock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-07· cited 20×
• Langton v. Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-05· cited 20×
• Fain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-25· cited 20×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 19×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 19×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Harris v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-24· cited 2,903×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-05· cited 37×
• Colbert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-07-16· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 27×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-31· cited 20×
• Gerdine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-11-14· cited 10×
• Zirkle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-12· cited 9×
• Ellard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-05· cited 9×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-05-18· cited 8×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1937-09-09· cited 7×
• Fader v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1925-03-27· cited 3×