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.

• reasonable probability that witness’ statements would have been discovered during ordinary course of police investigation, regardless of illegal search
• although discovery of victim hiding in defendant’s closet during illegal search was inadmissible, her statements to police subsequent to search rendered discovery admissible under independent source doctrine
• “The rationale behind the exclusionary rule is to prevent the State from capitalizing on police misconduct to put the prosecution in a better position than it would have been if no illegality had occurred.”
• “The rationale behind the exclusionary rule is to prevent the State from capitalizing on police misconduct to put the prosecution in a better position than it would have been if no illegality had occurred.”
• “The rationale behind the exclusionary rule is to prevent the State from capitalizing on police misconduct to put the prosecution in a better position than it would have been if no illegality had occurred.”
• police violated Fourth Amendment by opening trailer door without exigent circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Unger
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2014-08-28· cited 113×
• Corey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-13· cited 18×
• Ansley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 12×
• Wilder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 8×
• The State v. Tan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 3×
• State v. Ladarius Vickers
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-01· cited 2×
• Travis Joe Little v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-12
• Kayra Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• Watson v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2010-10-04
• Ahmed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-10
• Charlette Zeigler Corey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-13
• El Waleed Ahmed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-10
• Randy Ansley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-18
• William Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19

Cites

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

• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• State v. Andersen
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 99×
• Teal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 74×
• Coker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-11-04· cited 45×
• Pledger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-09· cited 43×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 27×
• Threatt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 26×
• State v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-13· cited 26×
• Slayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-22· cited 26×
• Welchel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 25×
• Rothfuss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-01-11· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-21· cited 17×
• Snider v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-24· cited 16×
• Bius v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 15×
• Hyde v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 13×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-22· cited 11×
• State v. Gallup
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 11×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-20· cited 11×
• Xiong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 8×