Sears v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “the state is not required to provide to the defense the confidential out-of-state juvenile records of a state witness, when those records are not a part of the state’s file” and even if that information is more accessible by the state
• noting that defendant would lack standing to challenge search of his mother’s house if he no longer lived there and had no expectation of privacy in the house
• noting that defendant would lack standing to challenge search of his mother’s house if he no longer lived there and had no expectation of privacy in the house
• declining to consider whether the State exercised its peremptory strikes with an intent to discriminate on the basis of gender where the defendant did not raise this objection at trial
• hardship imposed on mother of dependent infant is race-neutral reason for exercising peremptory challenge
• hardship imposed on mother of dependent infant is race-neutral reason for exercising peremptory challenge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sears v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-29· cited 293×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 92×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Carruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 73×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 71×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Roebuck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 49×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Flanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 33×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 29×
• Dockery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 29×
• Demarcus Sears v. Warden GDCP
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-07-19· cited 27×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 20×
• Beck v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-19· cited 14×
• Queen v. State
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2008-05-23· cited 10×
• Gurr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-20· cited 10×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-10· cited 10×
• Sears v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 10×
• Dennis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-28· cited 7×

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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,335×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-07· cited 153×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-25· cited 135×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 99×
• Baxter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 99×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 86×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×