Spencer v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ascertaining that photograph was treated as evidence, where photograph was displayed to the jury although never formally offered into evidence by the State
• ascertaining that photograph was treated as evidence, where photograph was displayed to the jury although never formally offered into evidence by the State
• voluntariness of plea could be determined from evidence adduced by State although no Pope objection had been raised to admission of plea
• use of plea acknowledgment form like that executed by Colbert showed that Spencer’s guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered
• scope of voir dire is left to the sound discretion of the trial court
• no abuse of discretion denying continuance to await arrival of unsubpoenaed witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• von Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 454×
• Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 2017-03-06· cited 326×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Nash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 122×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 92×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 92×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 89×
• Tharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-17· cited 88×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 85×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 79×
• Heidler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 77×
• Lynd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 75×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 73×
• Christenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 73×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×

Cites

52 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Smith v. Phillips
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 3,512×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Rushen v. Spain
  Supreme Court· 1983-12-12· cited 1,013×
• Tanner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 915×
• Johnson v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 792×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×