Shaw v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial judge has discretion to exclude evidence if “its prejudicial impact substantially outweighed its probative value”
• trial judge has discretion to exclude evidence if \its prejudicial impact substantially outweighed its probative value\
• exclusion of evidence of victim’s conviction was harmless error when there was simple evidence of victim’s hostility towards the defendant’s family
• trial judge has discretion to exclude even admissible evidence if he determines that its prejudicial impact substantially outweighs its probative value

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Alderman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 98×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 92×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-18· cited 64×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 55×
• John Lee Shaw v. Robert S. Boney, Warden, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General of the State of Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-01-10· cited 51×
• Fuqua v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-06-09· cited 31×
• Mercer v. Woodard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-17· cited 26×
• Goldsby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-06· cited 22×
• Wiseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-22· cited 20×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-04-13· cited 17×
• Newsome v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-23· cited 17×
• Sturkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 16×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-18· cited 15×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-30· cited 14×
• Phyfer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 11×
• Robertson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-24· cited 10×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-17· cited 10×
• Stancil v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-01-20· cited 8×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 8×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-07-09· cited 122×
• Crowder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-29· cited 82×
• Dickey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-01-20· cited 59×
• Avery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-04-14· cited 44×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-05-30· cited 33×
• Black v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-10· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-03-03· cited 30×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-10-11· cited 23×
• Candler v. Byfield
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1925-07-18· cited 17×
• McLaughlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 12×