Thornton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• allowed appointment of dental expert where impressions of defendant's teeth were the only connecting link between the defendant and the homicide, and impressions were subject to varying expert opinions
• error to deny funds for expert examination of sole evidence linking accused to crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Husske v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-09-13· cited 110×
• Roseboro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-03· cited 57×
• People v. Leonard
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-10-08· cited 57×
• Dubose v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1995-03-24· cited 56×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-02· cited 47×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-12-14· cited 45×
• Ely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-10· cited 43×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-19· cited 29×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-03· cited 25×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-07· cited 25×
• McNeal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 24×
• Gary v. Hall
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-02-12· cited 23×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-04-20· cited 20×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 18×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-10· cited 16×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-08-06· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-25· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 10×
• Dingler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-03· cited 9×
• Kendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-12-04· cited 8×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-21· cited 372×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Williams v. Newsome
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-12· cited 9×