State v. Wooten

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the broad discretion of prosecutors in making decisions about whom to prosecute and what charges to bring
• explaining that a public prosecutor’s responsibility “differs from that of the usual advocate” because the prosecutor represents the people and has a “duty . . . to seek justice”
• noting that a total deprivation of the right to trial counsel in criminal cases is a structural defect that affects the framework within which the trial proceeds and therefore is not subject to the harmless error analysis
• noting that a total deprivation of the right to trial counsel in criminal cases is a structural defect that affects the framework within which the trial proceeds and therefore is not subject to the harmless error analysis
• in a criminal case the total deprivation of the right to counsel is a constitutional error that is not subject to a harmless error analysis
• violation of USCR 3.1's requirements regarding case assignments neither violated defendant's constitutional * rights nor harmed him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-25· cited 61×
• In the Interest of J. M. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-20· cited 31×
• GeorgiaCarry.Org, Inc. v. Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 27×
• In the Interest of C. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-23· cited 25×
• State v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 16×
• Lord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 16×
• State v. Perry
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-24· cited 15×
• Cobb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-24· cited 13×
• Mulvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-02· cited 11×
• Winfrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 11×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-25· cited 10×
• Moseley v. Sentence Review Panel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 10×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-19· cited 9×
• Golden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-17· cited 9×
• Prince v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-15· cited 8×
• Miners v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-22· cited 7×
• McAdams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-01· cited 7×
• Delgado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-16· cited 6×
• Mowoe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10· cited 6×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 6×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-05· cited 77×
• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• McIntyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×
• State v. Hanson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 56×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 52×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 30×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-04-21· cited 23×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 20×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-22· cited 12×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-06· cited 6×
• Lee v. King
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-12· cited 3×