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.

• defendant waives his right to be tried on a perfect indictment when he fails to file a special demurrer before pleading not guilty to the indictment
• “A party can not during the trial ignore what he thinks to be an injustice, take his chance on a favorable verdict, and complain later.”
• a contemporaneous objection is required to preserve an issue for review
• “The transcript does not reflect that Smith objected at closing argument or during trial to the matters he now contends constituted the State’s improper shifting of the burden of proof to Smith. Thus, this issue was not preserved for appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Stinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 50×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-16· cited 45×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 42×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 27×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-14· cited 24×
• Agee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 23×
• Zellars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 23×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×
• Kohlhaas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-08· cited 15×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 14×
• O'Donnell v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 14×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-07· cited 13×
• Yates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-06· cited 10×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 10×
• REEVES v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-20· cited 9×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-25· cited 8×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 8×
• Dingler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-24· cited 6×

Cites

30 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×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• State v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 150×
• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Duckworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 82×
• Cofield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-10· cited 76×
• Spaulding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 63×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 59×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-20· cited 54×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-20· cited 53×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-15· cited 46×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×
• State v. Larocque
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 43×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 33×
• Tankersley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-04· cited 32×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Salem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-10-08· cited 23×
• Sandoval v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 17×
• Jones v. Scarborough
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-12· cited 15×