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 the trial court had taken sufficient “remedial actions” to address a “single confirmed act of dozing” where the court “ask[ed] the jury to stay awake,” “addressed [the sleeping] juror individually[,] and initiated changes to accommodate the juror’s efforts to stay alert”
• “There must be some sound basis upon which the trial judge exercises his discretion to remove the juror.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• casual visitor, as opposed to an overnight guest, has no expectation of privacy in motel room rented to another
• person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a hotel room if he is not registered guest, has no key, and has no luggage in the room
• no abuse of discretion in retaining a juror where there was conflicting evidence concerning whether the juror was sleeping, the alleged dozing was limited, and the court counseled the juror in question
• no abuse of discretion in retaining a juror where there was conflicting evidence concerning whether the juror was sleeping, the alleged dozing was limited, and the court 12 counseled the juror in question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-26· cited 41×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 33×
• Menzies v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 31×
• Brewington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 30×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 29×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Williams v. the Stat
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 22×
• Celestin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 17×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 15×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 14×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 12×
• Entwisle v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-01· cited 12×
• Doleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 12×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-02· cited 10×
• Moses v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 9×
• Lankford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-16· cited 8×
• McKelvin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 8×
• State v. Delvechio
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-06· cited 7×
• State v. Carter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-10· cited 7×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Stoner v. California
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 1,576×
• Minnesota v. Carter
  Supreme Court· 1999-02-23· cited 1,221×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 118×
• Nelloms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 61×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 49×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 36×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 31×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 22×
• Wimberly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 21×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-02-13· cited 16×
• Threatt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-21· cited 14×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-09· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-07· cited 13×
• Peeler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-06· cited 7×