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.

• holding that although similar transactions can be used to corroborate accomplice testimony, they cannot be the sole source of corroborating evidence
• holding that trial counsel was deficient for failing to object to the bolstering of a witness’s credibility through testimony that the witness was “honest” and “became truthful” during an interrogation
• stating that “it does not matter exactly whose property was taken so long as it was taken from a person or the immediate presence of another”
• reversing false imprisonment conviction where there was no evidence the victim experienced any attempt to confine her to the bedroom where she was hiding
• affirming defendant’s burglary conviction despite that the evidence failed to establish that the burglarized residence was the dwelling house of the named victim, as alleged in the indictment
• stating, in affirming appellant’s multiple armed robbery convictions arising from home invasion, that “it does not matter exactly whose property was taken so long as it was taken from a person or the immediate presence of another”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Issa v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• Cunningham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 10×
• Veasey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-02· cited 10×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01· cited 9×
• Gregoire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-30· cited 8×
• Moore v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-01· cited 8×
• Tran v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-08· cited 8×
• Word v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 7×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-18· cited 7×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-26· cited 6×
• Chandler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-14· cited 6×
• Springer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 5×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-17· cited 5×
• Avila v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-12· cited 4×
• Mays v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-25· cited 1×
• STURGENT v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-24
• Rene Flores-Avila v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-02
• Deonte Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-06

Cites

24 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×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 59×
• Tuff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 47×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 47×
• Mann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-17· cited 42×
• McKisic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-20· cited 39×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-20· cited 36×
• Manzano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 36×
• King v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 31×
• Kimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-03· cited 31×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-03-28· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 15×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-09· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-24· cited 12×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-22· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-17· cited 12×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• Hurston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-03· cited 9×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 7×