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.

• explaining that any analysis regarding whether recusal is required is “necessarily fact-bound”
• explaining that any analysis regarding whether recusal is required is “necessarily fact-bound”
• finding no reason to prohibit the State from running criminal background checks on prospective jurors
• question is whether judge’s impartiality can be questioned reasonably, bearing in mind the reality that any judge will have had extensive contact with the community and local bar
• question is whether judge’s impartiality can be questioned reasonably, bearing in mind the reality that any judge will have had extensive contact with the community and local bar
• the term “private papers” refers to documents protected by a legal privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 71×
• Ellis v. Stanford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-02· cited 55×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 51×
• Baptiste v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-18· cited 47×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• Galbreath v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-15· cited 42×
• Lawler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 37×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 34×
• Gillis v. City of Waycross
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-01· cited 27×
• Demarcus Sears v. Warden GDCP
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-07-19· cited 27×
• Walsh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-19· cited 25×
• Mister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 22×
• Hampton Island Founders v. Liberty Capital
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-10· cited 20×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-17· cited 16×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 15×
• Brogdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 15×
• Heckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 12×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Mooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-15· cited 148×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-17· cited 81×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-13· cited 32×
• Lowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-17· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-04· cited 10×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-12-05· cited 6×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-11-16· cited 5×