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.

• concluding that “a generalized statement” that “police can and will lie” was not a proper subject for cross-examination of a police officer under Rule 608(b), because it was “not probative of [that particular officer]’s own credibility in testifying under oath”(quotation marks omitted)
• no error in trial court prohibiting cross-examination of a witness about a statement he made in a publication about lying

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Gaskin v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 18×
• Douglas v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-08· cited 16×
• Wilhite v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-08· cited 10×
• Belcher v. the State.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-26· cited 10×
• DANIELS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-08· cited 3×
• Christopher Strong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-07-29

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Coley QUINN, Defendant-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-10-03· cited 68×
• Thorpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 42×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-07-02· cited 32×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-25· cited 29×
• Flading v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-22· cited 20×
• State v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 14×
• Hand v. South Georgia Urology Center, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 9×
• Charles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 5×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-21· cited 5×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 4×
• State v. Gaggini
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-28· cited 4×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-17· cited 3×