Sterling v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that State's argument regarding defendant's future dangerous during closing argument of guilt/innocence phase of trial was improper
• holding that it is improper for a prosecutor to argue to the jury during the guilt-innocence phase that a defendant poses a threat of future 19 dangerousness
• rejecting claim of improper bolstering based on the introduction of a witness’ taped statement before the witness testified at trial because the witness’ credibility was eventually attacked and the tape was therefore properly admitted as a prior consistent statement
• improper for the State to argue a defendant poses a threat of future danger in the guilt-innocence phase of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Holcomb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 95×
• Thomason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 82×
• Teal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 74×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 69×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 63×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 49×
• Bellamy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 47×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• State v. Lucious
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 36×
• Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-06· cited 29×
• Sampson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 29×
• Render v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 26×
• State v. Walsh
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2011-08-23· cited 25×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-26· cited 24×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-04· cited 24×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 18×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-08· cited 18×
• Walters v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 18×
• Stroud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 16×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Lively v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-16· cited 90×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 87×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 86×
• Vance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-22· cited 51×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-07· cited 49×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-20· cited 36×
• Wilcox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-18· cited 30×
• Duckworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 29×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 28×
• Mundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 23×