State v. Jolly

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “[a]ppellate courts recognize an overriding rule which says: ‘whatever doesn’t make any difference, doesn’t matter’”
• a defendant seeking reversal based on an error in the admission of evidence has the burden of showing that the evidence was prejudicial
• \Errors are harmless where they could not reasonably have affected the result of the trial.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jolly v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-09· cited 37×
• State v. Douglas
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-01-23· cited 33×
• State v. BANTAN
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2010-03-10· cited 29×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-03-11· cited 21×
• State v. Gray
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1991-05-06· cited 7×
• State v. Russell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-05-18· cited 3×
• State v. Reyes
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-12-16
• Click Properties, LLC v. Thomas SC Properties, LLC
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2025-03-12

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McDonald v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-01· cited 347×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-10-15· cited 141×
• McCall v. Finley
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1987-10-26· cited 93×
• State v. Blackburn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1978-08-24· cited 79×
• Burns v. Clayton
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1960-11-19· cited 73×
• State v. Munn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-06-22· cited 43×
• State v. Truesdale
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-10-31· cited 18×
• State v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-10-16· cited 16×
• State v. McElveen
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-03-01· cited 14×