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 the detective’s conclusion that the defendant had altered the crime scene was inadmissible
• a prosecutor may not inject into the final argument matters which have not been proven in evidence
• “[a] party may not bolster his opinion as to the ultimate issue with expert testimony when the jury could reach the same conclusion ‘independently of the opinion of others’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• State v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-29· cited 64×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Laney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 55×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 46×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 43×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 41×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 35×
• Jennette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-16· cited 35×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 32×
• Sosebee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-02· cited 26×
• Patillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-27· cited 26×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-06· cited 23×
• Clanton v. Von Haam
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-01-24· cited 20×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-01· cited 18×
• Davidson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-11· cited 18×
• Knowles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-10· cited 16×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-06· cited 15×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-01· cited 53×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-15· cited 52×
• Sinns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-28· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-04· cited 27×
• Winget v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-22· cited 16×