State v. Sims

How courts have described this case

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

• describing Mallory as “focus[ing] on commentary on a defendant’s conduct between the time of the crime and prior to arrest”
• explaining the “bright line rule” of Mallory is not violated where the comments are “limited to noting inconsistencies in [the defendant’s] pretrial statements to authorities”
• approving trial court analysis as to why trial counsel’s failure to object to prosecutor’s opening comments prejudiced the defendant, who claimed self-defense in part based on significant physical disparity between himself and the victim
• “[T]he comments expressly emphasize that [the defendant] failed to call police... prior to being arrested. This violated the bright-line rule of Mallory.”
• prosecutor’s comments were impermissible because they “expressly emphasize[d] that [defendant] failed to call police after he shot [the victim] and prior to being arrested”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 60×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• State v. Spratlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 27×
• Davidson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 26×
• Tepanca v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20· cited 22×
• Seabolt v. Norris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 17×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 17×
• Bradford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 15×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 13×
• State v. Lexie
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-20· cited 11×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Frazier v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-10· cited 9×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 8×
• State v. Otto Orr
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-08· cited 5×
• The State v. Wilkerson.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-07-30· cited 5×
• Lawton v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-09· cited 4×
• The State v. Banks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-08· cited 3×
• Jackson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 1×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• State v. Worsley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 40×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 32×
• Lampley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 32×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 27×
• Stringer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 23×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 22×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 17×
• Gilyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 16×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 13×
• Rush v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 12×