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.

• holding that the trial court erred by excluding evidence that the only other adult in the residence at the time a child was injured had a history of inappropriate behavior against her own child
• “[a] reasonable inference of a defendant’s innocence is raised by evidence that renders the desired inference more probable than the inference would be without the evidence”
• “[a] reasonable inference of a defendant’s innocence is raised by evidence that renders the desired inference more probable than the inference would be without the evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 27×
• Elkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 27×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 21×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 21×
• De La Cruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 17×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 11×
• Dodd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-03· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22· cited 7×
• Hinds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-13· cited 6×
• Bostic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 6×
• Gerlock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 5×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-14· cited 5×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-11· cited 4×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-19· cited 2×
• Corbin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-31· cited 1×
• Bowen, Warden v. Noel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 1×
• Justin Daniel Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-14
• Israel Moses Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 118×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Klinect v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 77×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 65×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 46×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 40×
• Slakman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-13· cited 35×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 35×
• Azizi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 33×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-12-04· cited 32×
• Gabriel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-13· cited 23×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-10· cited 22×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 18×
• Croom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-06-14· cited 17×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-15· cited 16×
• Oree v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 15×
• McAllister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-01-11· cited 11×