Watson 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 the question of relevance is entrusted to a trial court’s discretion and holding: “The proffered evidence in this case was too threadbare to be admissible.”
• holding that the question of relevance is entrusted to a trial court’s discretion and holding: “The proffered evidence in this case was too threadbare to be admissible.”
• holding that the question of relevance is entrusted to a trial court’s discretion and holding: “The proffered evidence in this case was too threadbare to be admissible.”
• holding that an issue was not adequately preserved where defendant filed a motion in limine, trial court did not issue a pretrial ruling, and defendant did not object until after the problematic testimony had concluded
• finding that an unavailable witness’ statements to close friends were not testimonial in nature, so the statements were not subject to a Crawford analysis
• admitting hearsay testimony despite the victim’s inconsistent statements about a broken arm when there was a logical explanation for the inconsistencies and the victim never recanted her reports of abuse by the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Devega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 56×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 51×
• Hatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 42×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 42×
• Bulloch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 40×
• Gay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 39×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 32×
• Bunnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×
• Stacey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 30×
• Duggan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 29×
• Culmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 29×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 28×
• Soto v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 27×
• State v. Staten
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-03-07· cited 25×

Cites

56 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×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Morrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 90×
• Harley-Davidson Motor Co. v. Daniel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-07· cited 89×
• Higgs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-15· cited 85×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Emmett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 79×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 78×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Klinect v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 77×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 62×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×