Thrift v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “in order to establish a claim of cumulative error, a defendant must show . . . that at least two errors were committed in the course of the trial”
• defendant’s confessions to killing victim and disposing of victim’s body, made to various witnesses, were direct evidence of guilt and those confessions, along with corroborating evidence, were sufficient to support his murder conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 23×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 10×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 7×
• Swinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 6×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-19· cited 1×
• Edwards-Tuggle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 1×
• Jacob Rivera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-14
• Timothy Joel Cross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Jack Lance Hutcheson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-07-28
• LAS COLINAS APARTMENTS, LLC v. FANNIE MAE
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-12
• Jamal Body v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-04-28
• A'andre Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-29
• Eddie Champion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-31
• Alexander Jackson, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-31

Cites

32 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×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 118×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 53×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 51×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-03· cited 38×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 33×
• Pike v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 33×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 32×
• Ragan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 30×
• Hansley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 29×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 27×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 25×
• McCLAIN v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 24×
• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 23×
• Denson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 21×