Styles v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the inverse is true and cases decided under former OCGA § 24-4-8 may be applied to cases applying the current Evidence Code OCGA § 24-14-8
• “A closing argument is to be judged in the context in which it is made.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• MUSE v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 27×
• Heade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 25×
• Thrift v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Lofton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 16×
• Knighton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 13×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 11×
• TABOR v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 11×
• Mahdi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 10×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 9×
• Nesbit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 8×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 7×
• MORRIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 5×
• Boone v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 5×
• Mayo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 4×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 3×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 1×
• Maggie Ann Tarlton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-21
• Julian R. Baughcum, Jr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-05-13

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 65×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 61×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-26· cited 61×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Lowery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 51×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 36×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 34×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 26×
• Barron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 22×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 21×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 17×
• Blackmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 16×