Williams v. the 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 trial court’s failure to correctly apply Rule 403 was harmless in light of the defendant’s own testimony regarding his criminal record
• noting that abuse-of- discretion standard “does not permit a ‘clear error of judgment’ or the application of ‘the wrong legal standard’”
• explaining that the abuse of discretion standard “recognizes the range of possible conclusions the trial judge may reach”
• noting that abuse-of-discretion standard “does not permit a ‘clear error of judgment’ or the application of ‘the wrong legal standard’ ”
• holdingthat any error in failing to admit burglary victim’s prior convictions was harmless when jury was aware that victim had a criminal record and had spent time in prison
• discussing differences between OCGA § 24-4-403 and prior Georgia precedent on excluding evidence based on its prejudice

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Cited by

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

• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Koules v. Sp5 Atlantic Retail Ventures, LLC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-12-12· cited 28×
• Cushenberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 24×
• Curry v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-05· cited 23×
• Gipson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-20· cited 23×
• The STATE v. McPHERSON
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-09· cited 21×
• Roberts v. Community & Southern Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-19· cited 18×
• State v. Parks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 17×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16· cited 16×
• Satterfield v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-19· cited 14×
• Dimauro v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-26· cited 14×
• Rivers v. K-Mart Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 13×
• The State v. Dowdell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 13×
• Glispie v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 12×
• Chase v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-16· cited 12×
• Anderson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-06· cited 12×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• Lingo v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 10×
• Oliver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 9×
• Kim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Smith v. Phillips
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 3,512×
• United States v. Richard Junior Frazier
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-10-15· cited 1,229×
• United States v. Liana Lee Lopez
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-08-16· cited 194×
• United States v. Merrill
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-01-17· cited 176×
• United States v. Utter
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-10-16· cited 69×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-17· cited 68×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 54×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 53×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-19· cited 53×
• Sifuentes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 53×
• Hoffler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 41×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 26×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 25×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 23×
• Flading v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-22· cited 20×
• Kitchens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 18×
• McGarvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-09· cited 17×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-10· cited 14×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 12×
• Waye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-13· cited 12×

Other cases named Williams v. the State

13 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-06· cited 16×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-01-25· cited 11×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 8×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-08-11· cited 8×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 6×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-28· cited 6×
• WILLIAMS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-07· cited 4×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 3×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-05· cited 1×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 1×
• WILLIAMS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-08-08· cited 1×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22