State v. Lynch

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trial court’s ruling excluding similar transaction evidence was not on the ground that it was obtained illegally and thus was not appealable
• holding that State could not appeal exclusion of similar transaction evidence and denial of motion to reopen evidence under pre-2013 version of OCGA § 5-7-1
• holding that OCGA § 5-6-34 (d) has no application in criminal appeals by the State
• affirming suppression of a confession obtained after a suspect was beaten and after investigators promised that the suspect would receive medical attention only if he gave a statement
• authorizing the State’s appeal of an oral ruling suppressing evidence where, in response to the State’s request for a written order, “the trial court stated that ‘the record speaks for itself’ and never entered a written order”
• “OCGA §§ 5-7-1 et seq. must be construed strictly against the State and liberally in favor of the interests of defendants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• State v. Outen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 52×
• State v. Cash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 50×
• State v. Caffee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-11· cited 39×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 31×
• State v. Rosenbaum
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 31×
• State v. Andrade
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 22×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 21×
• Madrigal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 14×
• Tobias v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-30· cited 12×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 11×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 11×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-16· cited 10×
• State v. HARRIS (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 10×
• State v. Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26· cited 7×
• Lovelady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-10· cited 4×
• The State v. Osborne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-18· cited 2×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-28· cited 2×
• State v. Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02· cited 1×
• State v. James Arthur Davenport
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-15

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 78×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• State v. Ritter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 45×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 39×
• Berky v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 39×
• State v. Ware
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 34×
• State v. Tye
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 33×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 33×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• State v. Morrell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 25×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 23×
• Cousins v. MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 16×
• Welborn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-06· cited 13×
• State v. Stanfield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-05· cited 11×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-19· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-05-23· cited 7×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-18· cited 7×