Shaver 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 there was insufficient evidence to sustain conviction when confession was uncorroborated
• no exception to hearsay rule when witness not “available” because he is incompetent
• hearsay evidence, even if admitted without objection, has no probative value
• uncorroborated confession insufficient to support conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Walsh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-11· cited 39×
• Riddle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-18· cited 37×
• Woodruff v. Woodruff
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 26×
• City of Lawrenceville v. MacKo
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-09· cited 24×
• Harden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-14· cited 16×
• Turpin v. Worley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-05· cited 15×
• Gibby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-01· cited 15×
• Fitz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-03· cited 12×
• Scruggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-24· cited 10×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-10· cited 10×
• Lang v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-18· cited 8×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-05· cited 7×
• Peavy v. Goodroe
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-16· cited 7×
• Satterwhite v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-27· cited 2×
• Darius Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-11

Cites

24 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×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-02· cited 141×
• Higgs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-15· cited 85×
• Sosebee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-19· cited 74×
• Germany v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 50×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-31· cited 46×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-03-08· cited 31×
• Glisson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-29· cited 30×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-07-14· cited 26×
• Maynard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-25· cited 24×
• Herrin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-04-16· cited 22×
• Phelps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-10· cited 20×
• Christopher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-21· cited 20×
• Fields v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-06· cited 20×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-04-07· cited 19×
• Finch v. Caldwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 18×
• Foskey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-09-20· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-01· cited 15×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-18· cited 15×