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.

• decided before Orr and concluding that Mallory challenges to opening and closing arguments were waived when not first raised by objection in the trial court
• \ '[A]n error is plain if it is clear or obvious under current law. An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority on point ....' \ (citation omitted)
• “An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority 4 In the context of a remark made by a prosecutor, in determining whether the remark was an improper comment on the defendant’s failure to testify that constitutes reversible error, we ask whether “(1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• State v. Herrera-Bustamante
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 58×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Lyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 42×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 31×
• Eller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 30×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 28×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 25×
• Walter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 21×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 18×
• ADAMS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-12-27· cited 15×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 15×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 13×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• John Chamberlain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-03· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Jenkins v. Anderson
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-10· cited 1,359×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Salinas v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 291×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 37×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 37×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×