Wallace v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prohibiting evidence that the defendant reacted physically but did not admit anything when police questioned him about his wife’s death
• finding that testimony that appellant did not say anything in response to certain inquiries made by police, but instead simply swallowed hard, wrung his hands, breathed and sighed deeply, and shuffled his arms and legs, touched upon the silence of the accused
• failure to object at trial to testimony on the ground that it improperly reflected on the defendant’s right to remain silent, waived that issue on appeal
• failure to object at trial to testimony on the ground that it improperly reflected on the defendant’s right to remain silent, waived that issue on appeal
• defendant failed to preserve claim that testimony improperly commented upon his exercise of right to remain silent where he failed to object on that ground at trial and instead objected only that the testimony was “unfair” and “prejudicial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cammer v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 55×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Dority v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 33×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 32×
• Polite v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-10· cited 28×
• Caylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-14· cited 24×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 22×
• Maynard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-29· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-24· cited 17×
• Pierce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-19· cited 16×
• Raymond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-25· cited 16×
• Wilburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-07· cited 13×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-13· cited 13×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 13×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 12×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-09· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-24· cited 12×
• Linto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 11×
• Wilcox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 11×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-17· cited 44×
• Gober v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 40×
• Jarrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-20· cited 33×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 24×
• Mundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 23×
• Glean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 14×