State v. Hodges

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “a linchpin of the ‘chain of reason’ ” in admitting a victim’s prior acts of violence as relevant to a defendant’s justification defense is that the “defendantprove that the victim committed the prior acts of violence”
• citing, as the seminal case on victim-prior-acts evidence, Chandler v. State, 261 Ga. 402, 407-408 (3) (b), (c) (405 SE2d 669) (1991
• emphasizing that “a linchpin of the ‘chain 9 of reason’” in admitting a victim’s prior acts of violence as relevant to a defendant’s justification defense is that the “defendant prove that the victim committed the prior acts of violence”
• “mere hearsay about... a prior . . . act is not probative evidence as to whether the act actually occurred. . . .”
• “mere hearsay about . . . a prior . . . act is not probative evidence as to whether the act actually occurred. . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 34×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Dean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-07· cited 14×
• Pena v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 12×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-12· cited 12×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 11×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-14· cited 8×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05· cited 8×
• Gialenios v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-06· cited 3×
• Hammill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30· cited 3×
• Undreas Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-14
• Mario Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05
• Anthony Scott Dean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-07
• Michael Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-12
• Lenburg Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-06
• Taylor Whitfield Hammill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Milton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 63×
• Dickey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-01-20· cited 59×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 58×
• Lolley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-09· cited 47×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 40×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-09· cited 39×
• State v. Lynch
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 36×
• Simpkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-04-12· cited 30×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 26×
• Arp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 19×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 18×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 16×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 13×
• Heard v. Lovett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-06· cited 11×
• Grano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-04-10· cited 9×
• Render v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-10· cited 9×