Willingham v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming conviction despite erroneous admission of hearsay because other evidence was sufficient to sustain conviction
• Crawford violation requires reversal where hearsay evidence went to core issue of case and was the only direct evidence placing defendant at the scene

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rector v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 51×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 30×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 27×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 24×
• Stovall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 22×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 20×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 20×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 19×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-03· cited 17×
• Sales v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 13×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-03· cited 12×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-06-22· cited 9×
• Thomas v. Emory Clinic, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-26· cited 8×
• Gifford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-02· cited 6×
• Grindle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-27· cited 5×
• Alday v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-29· cited 2×
• Staci Shawn Thomas v. the Emory Clinic, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-26
• Darren Rayton Mills, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-22

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Baugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-10· cited 39×
• Brawner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 30×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 19×
• Cates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-08· cited 15×
• Farmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-01· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-03· cited 9×
• Copprue v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 7×