Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding a violation of a defendant’s right to be present was harmless error
• concluding prejudice existed when “two jurors made an unauthorized visit to the scene of the crime and gauged the time it took to drive from there to appellant’s house”
• creating exception to rule because two jurors went to scene of crime, measured distances, and reported findings to full jury
• reversing convictions because two jurors made unauthorized visits to crime scene, conducted fact-finding, and reported findings to the rest of the jury
• explaining that the general rule that jurors are not permitted to impeach their own verdict is deeply rooted in Georgia law as it promotes important public policy considerations, but that such rule does yield to a defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial
• reversing convictions because two jurors made unauthorized visits to crime scene, conducted fact-finding, and reported findings to the rest of the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Chancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-13· cited 154×
• Pryor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-27· cited 128×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-06· cited 111×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 92×
• Burnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-01-24· cited 76×
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Pinyan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-15· cited 65×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-18· cited 64×
• Robert E. Llewellyn v. Leroy Stynchcombe, Sheriff, and State of Georgia
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-01-04· cited 60×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• Johns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 59×
• High v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 56×
• Elisovsky v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-03-30· cited 51×
• Roebuck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 49×
• Tuff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 47×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-02-14· cited 44×
• Bobo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-03-15· cited 43×
• Forney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-01-07· cited 37×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-11· cited 35×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 34×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Parker v. Gladden
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 671×
• People v. De Lucia
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-07-07· cited 127×
• Proctor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 82×
• Wisdom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 71×
• Dutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-04-06· cited 70×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-02-11· cited 63×
• Spaulding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 63×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-07· cited 60×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-07-10· cited 48×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-08-15· cited 48×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-11· cited 43×
• Person v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 33×
• Tolbirt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1906-02-15· cited 25×
• Huffaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-05-01· cited 24×
• Driver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-11-27· cited 21×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1871-07-15· cited 17×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-12-04· cited 12×
• Alley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1959-02-18· cited 9×
• O'BRYANT v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-06-23· cited 9×