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.

• noting two generally recognized grounds for disqualification of prosecutor: conflict of interest and “forensic misconduct” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• noting in dicta that prosecutor’s knowing use of perjured testimony would constitute a due process violation
• not even the prosecutor’s knowing use of perjured testimony, perhaps the most heinous form of prosecutorial misconduct, bars retrial
• not even the prosecutor's knowing use of perjured testimony, perhaps the most heinous form of prosecutorial misconduct, bars retrial
• “[I]t is generally the rule that by making a motion for mistrial the defendant thereby waives any claim of double jeopardy.”
• “The primary purpose underlying the Double Jeopardy Clause is to prohibit the retrial of a criminal defendant where the prosecution has, at the initial trial, produced insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 98×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 59×
• State v. Wooten
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 42×
• Dinning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 35×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-15· cited 33×
• Weems v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 29×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-09· cited 26×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-18· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-14· cited 22×
• Ritter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 21×
• State v. Lampl
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 18×
• State v. D'AURIA
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-27· cited 17×
• Head v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 16×
• State v. D'AURIA
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-08-28· cited 16×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-30· cited 16×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 15×
• Billings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-04· cited 14×
• State v. Traylor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 14×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 14×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Oregon v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 2,097×
• Mooney v. Holohan
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-21· cited 1,837×
• Wade v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1949-04-25· cited 1,511×
• Dunlop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-02-15· cited 337×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-04· cited 155×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-17· cited 81×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-22· cited 71×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 57×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-15· cited 52×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-05· cited 52×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-12-23· cited 42×
• Bland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-10-14· cited 33×
• State v. Madigan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-22· cited 33×
• State v. Hohman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-07-24· cited 33×
• Hoerner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 31×