State v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he trial court is given a significant amount of deference to exercise its sound discretion because it was an observer of what transpired at trial.”
• the judge who presided over a trial “is given a significant amount of deference to exercise its sound discretion” in ruling on a motion for a new trial under the general grounds “because it was an observer of what transpired at trial”
• affirming grant of new trial by successor judge
• affirming grant of new trial by successor judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 108×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 36×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 30×
• State v. Parks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 17×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 13×
• State v. Denson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-23· cited 13×
• Wiggins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 12×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 12×
• State v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 9×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 8×
• Kuhn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 7×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 6×
• The State v. Byrd
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-18· cited 5×
• Caviston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 5×
• Strapp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-14· cited 3×
• Estuardo Bernal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• State v. Shaniqua Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-03-25
• Winston Strapp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-14
• Rebecca Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-18

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 49×
• Head v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-15· cited 19×