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.

• Brady violated where officer gave testimony contradicted by part of a police report not disclosed to defense
• “[W]e cannot and will not approve corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial process.”
• conviction reversed where prosecutor withheld written report that contradicted officer’s trial testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Teague v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-01· cited 162×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 92×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 57×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-13· cited 47×
• Smith v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 30×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-08· cited 25×
• Nations v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 15×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-30· cited 14×
• Wellborn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-09-28· cited 14×
• Radford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-12· cited 14×
• Byrd v. Owen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 13×
• Varnadoe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-28· cited 12×
• Mondy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-02· cited 10×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-19· cited 8×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-15· cited 7×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 7×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-27· cited 6×
• State v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 5×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Mooney v. Holohan
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-21· cited 1,837×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Golden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-12-01· cited 14×