State v. Towns

How courts have described this case

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

• a violation of an “essential and substantial” provision of a jury selection statute occurs if the violation “affects the identity of the persons selected for the array from the universe of persons eligible to serve”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 9×
• Sinkfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 5×
• Simms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17

Cites

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

• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 111×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Brown v. City of Atlanta
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1880-09-15· cited 85×
• Al-Amin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 78×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-07-03· cited 72×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-26· cited 68×
• Haden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1933-01-20· cited 50×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Estes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-06· cited 47×
• Blevins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-02-23· cited 41×
• McHan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-25· cited 28×
• Presnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-11· cited 22×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-11-16· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 22×
• Pollard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1918-09-14· cited 19×
• State v. Lampl
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 18×