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 trial court’s 28 “thorough curative instruction,” mentioning “drugs” four times in instructing the jury that a witness’s reference to drugs was to be disregarded, was “sufficient to counter any alleged harm caused by the witness’s brief statement”
• holding that the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion for a mistrial was not erroneous and a “curative instruction was sufficient to counter any alleged harm caused by the witness’s brief statement” about the defendant’s involvement with drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 25×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 14×
• Swims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 7×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 4×
• Dana Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 51×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 44×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 32×
• Higuera-Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 26×