Simmons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “evidence of violent acts by the victim, against third persons, is admissible only when the defendant claims justification as a defense”
• lapse of 11 years does not render evidence of prior occurrence inadmissible as matter of law
• trial for murder of ex-wife; “testimony admitted concerning instances of prior difficulties throughout [defendant’s] marriage was relevant to the issues of intent, motive, scheme, and bent of mind”
• state’s unflattering characterizations of defendant, that he was a liar, that he cried false tears at trial, that he was mean, and that he was a wife beater were permissible inferences drawn from the evidence presented
• flights of oratory and figurative speech are permissible during closing argument
• attorneys are permitted a broad range of argument during final summation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 73×
• Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-11· cited 68×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 59×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 56×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-03· cited 43×
• Givens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 42×
• Rowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-09· cited 38×
• Azizi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 33×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 32×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-27· cited 26×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 21×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×

Cites

25 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Mitchum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-07-15· cited 175×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-19· cited 89×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 84×
• Reinhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 62×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-14· cited 53×
• Rich v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-20· cited 52×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-08· cited 51×
• Sullens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 49×
• Bohannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-21· cited 44×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 42×
• Johnson v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-10· cited 40×
• Starnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-08· cited 18×
• Nolton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-04· cited 18×