Williams 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that a microspectrophotometer graph printout was not a scientific report discoverable under OCGA § 17-7-211, which was repealed and reenacted to apply to misdemeanor cases. See OCGA § 17-16-23; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1895, § 4
• allowing expert evidence linking fibers in defendant's home to fibers found on homicide victims
• allowing expert evidence linking fibers in defendant's home to fibers found on homicide victims
• setting out the criteria for proper admission of other crimes evidence
• \[i]t is for the trial court to determine whether a given scientific principle or technique is competent evidence\
• “[i]t is for the trial court to determine whether a given scientific principle or technique is competent evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lord
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-02-07· cited 447×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 218×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 157×
• Homer Williams and Mrs. Faye Williams v. City of Atlanta
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-08-15· cited 111×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-25· cited 101×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• United States v. William Riley, Norman Burnett, Jeffrey Sizemore, Vincent Mazza
  Second Circuit· 1990-06-22· cited 85×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-19· cited 84×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 75×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• Lobdell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-12· cited 73×
• Harwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 70×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• McIntyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×

Cites

120 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Franks v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 8,679×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Bumper v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Burks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1979-01-23· cited 375×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• State v. Just
  Montana Supreme Court· 1979-10-22· cited 262×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 229×