State v. Williamson

How courts have described this case

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

• disapproving practice of allowing jurors to ask questions, but concluding reversal was not required; defendant's counsel approved the procedure by failing to object
• disapproving jurors’ questions to witnesses, but concluding reversal not required because the defendant did not object
• “[i]n Georgia, the practice [of jurors directly questioning witnesses] is not permitted”
• claims of error must be timely raised or they are waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Lively v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-16· cited 90×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Urena
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-05-06· cited 34×
• Spitzer v. Haims & Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-02-26· cited 25×
• Sharpe v. Department of Transportation
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 24×
• State v. Jumpp
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1993-01-19· cited 24×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-02· cited 23×
• Gaskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-12-03· cited 21×
• People v. Merklin
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2003-10-09· cited 17×
• Matchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-05· cited 16×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-02· cited 14×
• State v. Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-07-27· cited 13×
• Reid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-07· cited 13×
• Ex Parte Malone
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2008-12-19· cited 11×
• Day v. Kilgore
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-23· cited 10×
• Herrington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-29· cited 9×
• Williamson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-11· cited 8×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-21· cited 6×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Estelle v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-21· cited 2,305×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-05· cited 79×
• Stinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-09-26· cited 17×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-09· cited 7×
• Williamson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-12-05· cited 1×