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 a reason for a strike may be mistaken so long as it is race-neutral
• holding that a reason for a strike may be mistaken so long as it is race-neutral
• holding that prospective juror’s residence in public housing project where gang activity was prevalent was race-neutral explanation for peremptory strike
• explanation that gang activity was prevalent in particular public housing project racially-neutral where offense charged was gang-related and gang members were witnesses
• exercise of peremptory strikes against residents of public housing project plagued by gang-related activity upheld in trial of defendant for gang-related crimes
• prospective juror’s residence in public housing project where gang activity was prevalent is race-neutral explanation for strike, particularly given that the appellant was accused of gang activity and the State’s case hinged on the credibility of gang members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-17· cited 51×
• Trammel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 44×
• Bell v. Austin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 33×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-11· cited 27×
• Ellerbee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-07· cited 26×
• Littlejohn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08· cited 26×
• McKibbons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-02· cited 25×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-30· cited 25×
• Hodnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 19×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-25· cited 16×
• Hightower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-09· cited 15×
• Sorrells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-08-25· cited 15×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-12· cited 14×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-02· cited 11×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-14· cited 11×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 11×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• United States v. Thomas Bentley-Smith and Edsil M. Elledge, Jr., A/K/A Ken Elledge
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-10-20· cited 159×
• Lingo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 59×
• Bess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-04· cited 39×
• Strozier v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 33×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-09-06· cited 32×
• Congdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-22· cited 31×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-22· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 25×
• Minor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 23×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-12· cited 15×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-19· cited 15×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-08-24· cited 13×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-08· cited 11×
• Randolph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-13· cited 10×