Ward v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• uncontradicted statements to person in whom victim confided and to whom she turned for help with her problems are admissible under necessity exception
• witness and declarant were “good friends” for many years and had a “trusting,” confidential relationship
• not error to admit hearsay under the necessity exception that the murder victim had stated that she was “scared for her life” hours before she was killed by her boyfriend
• where it is shown, under the totality of the circumstances that the statements were made to “one in whom the deceased declarant placed great confidence and to whom [he or] she turned for help with [his or] her problems,” statements are admissible under the necessity exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 73×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 59×
• Tuff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 47×
• Demons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 47×
• Bellamy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 47×
• Henderson v. Hames
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 44×
• Givens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 42×
• Rowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-09· cited 38×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 36×
• McPherson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 34×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 30×
• Buttram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 30×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 27×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 26×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 25×
• Grimes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-27· cited 22×
• Belmar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 22×

Cites

27 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×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Duckworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 82×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 78×
• Klinect v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 77×
• Bowden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 68×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 62×
• Fetty v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 52×
• Johnson v. Knebel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 46×
• Burks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-14· cited 42×
• McGee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 33×
• Azizi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 31×
• Chandler Exterminators, Inc. v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-21· cited 30×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-27· cited 23×
• Dix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 22×
• Page v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 15×