Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that victim’s statements to police lacked a guarantee of trustworthiness despite their consistency and fact they were made within two days of fire
• concluding that victim's statements to police lacked a guarantee of trustworthiness despite their consistency and fact they were made within two days of fire
• holding harmless error to admit burn victim’s statements to arson investigators
• affirming removal when juror informed court she could not fulfill her duties as a juror because she had to undergo emergency dental surgery
• erroneous admission of hearsay under necessity exception may be harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 62×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 61×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 44×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 39×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-22· cited 36×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-22· cited 25×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 25×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 22×
• Cloud v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-12-10· cited 16×
• Hulme v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 15×
• Weathersby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-24· cited 12×
• Igle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-08· cited 12×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-21· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 12×
• Bullock v. Jeon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-18· cited 11×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-06· cited 10×
• Downs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-08· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 6×
• Dalton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-24· cited 5×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 89×
• Higgs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-15· cited 85×
• CHRYSLER MOTORS CORPORATION v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-03-10· cited 63×
• Forney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-01-07· cited 37×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-16· cited 21×