State v. Byrd

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that State could impeach defendant who testified that he had never sold drugs by calling witness who testified that he purchased drugs from defendant
• requiring request by defendant for a limiting instruction about impeachment evidence that incidentally injects character
• state permitted to introduce evidence that defendant sold drugs as rebuttal to defendant’s testimony that he never sold drugs
• “reasonable and proper to insist upon a request by a defendant who wishes to have the trial judge give limiting instructions for impeachment evidence used in the mode of disproving facts testified to”
• summarizing the methods by which a witness may be impeached
• summarizing the methods by which a witness may be impeached

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 60×
• Tilley v. Page
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-12· cited 20×
• McGraw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-13· cited 19×
• Doyal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-07· cited 14×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-10-16· cited 13×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-20· cited 11×
• Carruth v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-21· cited 11×
• Massey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-23· cited 11×
• Dawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-18· cited 10×
• Fussell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-12· cited 10×
• Parker v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-01· cited 10×
• Tew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-17· cited 9×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-09· cited 9×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-09· cited 8×
• Carr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-08· cited 8×
• Gooden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-24· cited 7×
• Beauchene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-12· cited 6×
• Sidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-09· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harris v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-24· cited 2,903×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-02-27· cited 109×
• Colbert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-07-16· cited 29×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-05-17· cited 19×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1894-06-04· cited 15×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-12· cited 2×