State v. Burns

How courts have described this case

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

• abrogating the “per se rule of admissibility for evidence of prior false allegations” of sexual abuse
• overruling stat- utory-construction decision that was “reached without any meaning- ful analysis”
• “The major function of Rule 403 is to exclude matter of scant or cumulative probative force, dragged in by the heels for the sake of its prejudicial effect.”
• sixteen-year-old girl had a reasonable expectation of privacy against her own family members when she was passed out nude in the family’s home bathroom in the act of or following bathing
• In Smith v. State, 259 Ga. 135, 137 (1) (377 SE2d 158) (1989
• “With respect to the right to confrontation, the Sixth Amendment provides two types of protections for a criminal defendant: the right physically to face those who testify against him, and the right to conduct cross-examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-15· cited 141×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 52×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 31×
• COBB COUNTY v. FLOAM
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-09· cited 22×
• FRETT v. STATE FARM EMPLOYEE WORKERS' COMPENSATION
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 21×
• State v. Parks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 17×
• State v. Wierson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 6×
• Brookins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 5×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 5×
• Gallegos-Munoz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 4×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 4×
• Barton-Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 3×
• Wood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 2×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 2×
• James Roy Ray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-04-03
• Christopher Bass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21
• Justin Daniel Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-14
• John Maner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-23
• Martin Kittrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-01-25

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Crane v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-09· cited 2,651×
• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• Taylor v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-28· cited 1,952×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• United States v. Scheffer
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-31· cited 1,617×
• Holmes v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2006-05-01· cited 1,409×
• Montana v. Egelhoff
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 816×
• Michigan v. Lucas
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 513×
• Nevada v. Jackson
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-03· cited 394×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Bohannon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-25· cited 176×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Olevik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 150×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-16· cited 146×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• State v. Almanza
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 98×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 79×