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.

• holding that prior false accusations of sexual offenses are admissible to attack the victim’s credibility and substantively to prove that the present offense did not happen
• concluding that “the evidence does not involve the victim’s past sexual conduct but rather the victim’s propensity to make false statements regarding sexual misconduct”
• holding that Georgia's Rape Shield statute, as it then existed under the old Evidence Code, did not prohibit testimony of prior false allegations made by a victim
• holding that prior false accusations of sexual offenses are admissible to attack the victim’s credibility and substantively to prove that the present offense did not happen
• reasoning that such “evidence does not involve the victim’s past sexual conduct but rather the victim’s propensity to make false statements regarding sexual misconduct”
• evidence of previous false allegations of sexual abuse by the victim does not fall within the proscription of the rape-shield laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-03· cited 352×
• State v. Boggs
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 165×
• People v. Sandoval
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-01-17· cited 117×
• State v. Wyrick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-05-04· cited 110×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 83×
• State v. Guenther
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-08-09· cited 63×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-04· cited 62×
• Odom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-15· cited 62×
• State v. Walton
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-08-26· cited 57×
• State v. Quinn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-22· cited 55×
• State v. J.Q.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-11-14· cited 52×
• People v. Cookson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 50×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-05-12· cited 50×
• State v. DeSantis
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1990-06-25· cited 47×
• Ney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-29· cited 45×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-02· cited 43×
• Abbott v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-07-13· cited 36×
• State v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 36×
• Stamey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-05· cited 34×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2004-07-01· cited 31×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Bohannon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-25· cited 176×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• State v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1984-07-16· cited 95×
• Little v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-15· cited 80×
• State v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-29· cited 64×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-11-17· cited 30×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-06· cited 28×
• People v. Adams
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-01-29· cited 24×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-28· cited 9×