State v. Roberts

How courts have described this case

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

• exhortations to tell the truth are not a hope of benefit that renders a confession inadmissible under OCGA § 24-3-50
• statement that “ ‘[t]he truth will set you free’ ” was not an improper hope of benefit
• teenage defendant’s statement deemed voluntary when there was no evidence of intimidation based upon his relative youth, and the interview occurred at night and lasted for only 30 minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Newland v. Hall
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-05-14· cited 123×
• SOSNIAK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 61×
• Mangrum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 54×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-22· cited 49×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 39×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-14· cited 30×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• Browner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 28×
• State v. Davison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 26×
• Pulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Stringer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 23×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 22×
• Viau v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-21· cited 16×
• Madrigal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 14×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-28· cited 12×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 12×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-16· cited 10×
• Swain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-25· cited 8×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 397×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 92×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 89×
• Caffo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-01· cited 86×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Reinhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 62×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 48×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-29· cited 46×
• Whittington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-06· cited 43×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 42×
• Tyler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-11· cited 41×
• Gober v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 40×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1923-06-07· cited 34×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 32×
• Kettman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-19· cited 28×
• Hammond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 10×
• Ivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-09-14· cited 8×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 8×
• Duncan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-30· cited 4×
• Echols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-10-22· cited 4×