State v. Hobbs

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on a line of decisions traceable to Jupitz, and holding a trial court must \explain how good character evidence could generate reasonable doubt sufficient to acquit\
• “Good character is a substantive fact at trial, and can by itself create reasonable doubt as to a defendant’s guilt and lead to an acquittal.”
• “Good character . . . can by itself create a reasonable doubt as to a defendant’s guilt and lead to an acquittal.”
• “‘Good character is a substantive fact at trial, and can by itself create reasonable doubt as to a defendant’s guilt and lead to an acquittal.’” (citation omitted)
• “[W]hen instructing on good 4 character, the trial court is expected to tell the jury that good character is a substantive fact which may create reasonable doubt leading to an acquittal.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 31×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 21×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 6×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-24· cited 4×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 4×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 2×
• Pantovich v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2019-08-07
• Caitlyn Metz v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2021-01-07
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05
• Cj Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-12
• Nathan Alan Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-24

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Nunnally v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 48×
• Bailey v. Edmundson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 32×
• Kettman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-19· cited 28×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-14· cited 24×
• Sapp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 23×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-07-16· cited 22×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 20×
• Duvall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-07· cited 16×
• Morrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-18· cited 9×
• King v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 9×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 7×
• Hobbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-30· cited 5×