Strong 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 the trial court abused its discretion under Rule 403 by admitting evidence of prior violent acts to show the appellant’s intent
• concluding that the violent nature of the erroneously admitted prior act contributed to its prejudicial value
• concluding that the evidence was sufficient as a constitutional matter to support the 52 appellant’s conviction for felony murder, even though “the evidence that [he] did not act in self-defense was not overwhelming”
• holding that the State’s argument that the other acts showed the defendant’s motive “‘to control other people’ with violence . . . ‘is a classic improper propensity argument, focusing on [his] violent . . . character’” (citation omitted)
• explaining that the unfair prejudicial effect of other-act evidence was made worse because “as far as the jury knew, Appellant had escaped any punishment for this litany of” other crimes
• noting that the Rule 404 (b) analysis requires consideration of both the similarities and the dissimilarities between the other acts evidence and the charged crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 41×
• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 28×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 26×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• Williams v. the Stat
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 22×
• ROOKS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 20×
• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 19×
• Pender v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 19×
• Talley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 13×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 10×
• Sams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 10×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 8×

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×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 172×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• United States v. Gulley
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-30· cited 112×
• State v. Almanza
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 98×
• United States v. Kristen Gilbert
  First Circuit· 2000-10-03· cited 90×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 84×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 67×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 57×
• United States v. Ladarius Venice Cook
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-07-31· cited 49×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 45×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 36×