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 trial court did not abuse its discretion in prohibiting cross-examination about the potential sentences that a co-indictee witness faced where the witness did not have \a concrete plea deal\ in exchange for his testimony
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in prohibiting cross-examination about the potential sentences that a co-indictee witness faced where the witness did not have “a concrete plea deal” in exchange for his testimony
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by prohibiting trial counsel from cross-examining the defendant’s co-indictee about his potential life sentence for murder, because he had not obtained a concrete plea deal from the State in exchange for his testimony
• recognizing trial courts retain wide latitude to limit cross-examination
• affirming authentication of letters written by Smith because, among other things, the co-indictee witness “testified that many of the letters were either given to him by Smith, or were delivered by a third party at Smith’s request”
• \[T]he right of cross-examination ... is not an absolute right that mandates unlimited questioning by the defense....\ (Citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• ANTHONY v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 43×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 36×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Timmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 24×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 18×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 16×
• Flannigan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Shellman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 12×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-29· cited 10×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-19· cited 9×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 9×
• McCammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 9×
• CRUZ v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-26· cited 6×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 6×
• Seabrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 5×
• McDOWELL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 4×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 4×
• BROWN (LARRY) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-06-23· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• United States v. Belfast
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-07-15· cited 149×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• Hodo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 39×
• Nicely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 39×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 29×
• Cheley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 22×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 17×
• Brown v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 13×
• Kipp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04· cited 6×