Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of defendant’s alcohol use and intoxication on afternoon of shooting not inadmissible despite adverse reflection on defendant’s character
• evidence not admissible which did not suggest violence on part of victim against third persons
• “A party to a lawsuit has no vested interest in having any particular juror to serve; he is entitled only to a legal and impartial jury.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “A party to a lawsuit has no vested interest in having any particular juror to serve; he is entitled only to a legal and impartial jury” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-16· cited 452×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• State v. Mendoza
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1999-07-08· cited 43×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-20· cited 31×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 20×
• Champ v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 20×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 17×
• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-11· cited 16×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-21· cited 13×
• Trim v. Shepard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 12×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-23· cited 11×
• Cheeks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-18· cited 11×
• Medlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 10×
• Sapp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 10×
• Carlton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-22· cited 9×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-09· cited 7×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 7×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-09· cited 6×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-07· cited 2×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Lolley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-09· cited 47×
• Grasham v. Southern Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1965-01-26· cited 44×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-02-10· cited 35×
• Pless v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-12· cited 28×
• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-07-06· cited 22×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-04· cited 21×
• Everett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-01· cited 16×