State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, despite unquestionable tension between Supreme Court precedents, one of two cases had never been explicitly overruled or disapproved of by the Supreme Court
• finding jurisdiction over the trial court’s decision to bar the State from presenting evidence at the rescheduled hearing on the motion to suppress based on the State’s failure to present evidence at the first hearing for which the State argued it had not been served notice
• “[T]he doctrine of stare decisis prohibits this Court from ignoring the valid precedent of a higher court.”
• “[T]he doctrine of stare decisis prohibits this Court from ignoring the valid precedent of a higher court.”
• \[T]he doctrine of stare decisis prohibits this Court from ignoring the valid precedent of a higher court.\
• \[T]he doctrine of stare decisis prohibits this Court from ignoring the valid precedent of a higher court.\

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Cited by

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

• State v. Able
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-04-24· cited 78×
• Whorton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-04-10· cited 28×
• Wilhite v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-08· cited 10×
• ABERCROMBIE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-11-03· cited 9×
• James Bernard v. Theresa Bernard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-09-28· cited 8×
• Hodges v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-14· cited 5×
• The State v. Harlacher
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 5×
• Knowles v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-21· cited 5×
• Weickert v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-30· cited 5×
• Burdette v. Chandler Telecom, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-30· cited 4×
• Jurdis Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• State v. Thomas G. Petty
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-01
• State v. David Wooten
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-05-17
• The MEDICAL CENTER OF CENTRAL GEORGIA, INC. v. NORKESIA TURNER
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-08-21
• State v. Walter Byrd
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-25
• Hank Carver Spackman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Glenn Whorton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-04-10
• State v. Catherine Lindsey Able
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-04-24
• Adrian Burdette v. Chandler Telecom, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-30
• Antonio Gathers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-16

Cites

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

• Vansant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 478×
• Salazar v. Buono
  Supreme Court· 2010-04-28· cited 204×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-25· cited 68×
• People v. Greenfield
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2006-06-29· cited 56×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 54×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-07· cited 52×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 42×
• State v. Strickman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 40×
• Berky v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 39×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 36×
• State v. Gomez
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 31×
• Boykin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-03· cited 31×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-16· cited 31×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-12-02· cited 27×
• State v. Morrell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 25×
• Beck v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-08· cited 24×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 23×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 22×
• State v. Kramer
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-26· cited 16×