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 the pattern charge given was not a presumption-of-truthfulness charge
• finding that “[w]hile a court may not express an opinion as to what has or has not been proven, remarks made by the court regarding the admissibility of evidence or explaining the court’s rulings are not such a comment or opinion”
• rejecting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel argument when defendant failed to “establish any prejudice as to counsel’s cross-examination” of witness
• finding no error in giving of jury instruction tracking the language of former § 1.31.20
• the trial court is allowed to “guide counsel” in order to ensure a fair trial
• trial judge’s comment that witness was a “very thorough investigator” did not express an opinion that bolstered the witness’ credibility in violation of OCGA § 17-8-57

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brittain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 57×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Rai v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-06· cited 24×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 14×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 13×
• Wilhite v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-08· cited 10×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 7×
• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-18· cited 5×
• Haymer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-27· cited 3×
• Aburto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30· cited 2×
• Huff v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 1×
• Dana Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Calvin Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-18
• Glenn Elliott Haymer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-27
• Victor Aburto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30
• Elijah Ames Brittain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-17
• Marco Antonio Perez v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2026-05-01

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Chatman v. Mancill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 71×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 40×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 39×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 33×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 25×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-28· cited 23×
• John v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 23×
• Jimmerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 22×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 21×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 21×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-27· cited 19×
• O'HARA v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-19· cited 17×
• Browning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 16×