Wade 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 a criminal defendant has “the right to be present, and see and hear, all the proceedings which are had against him on the trial before the Court”
• rejecting the contention that the defendant was not “injured” by a violation of his right to be present simply because “it was the legal right and privilege of the defendant” to be present and he had not waived his right (emphasis in original)
• “The defendant has not only the right to he confronted with his witnesses, but he has also the right to be present, and see and hear, all the proceedings which are had against him on the trial before the Court.”
• rereading of testimony allowed in defendant’s absence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hanifa v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 157×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1955-11-15· cited 82×
• Frank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-11-14· cited 62×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. House
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1897-12-13· cited 52×
• Heywood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-28· cited 49×
• Watkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-06-02· cited 47×
• Sammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 42×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1923-09-24· cited 39×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 38×
• Barton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1881-04-15· cited 37×
• Thacker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-02-13· cited 34×
• Hopson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-08-07· cited 31×
• Roberson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-02-14· cited 30×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-07-13· cited 27×