Willis 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 a defendant’s convictions where the defendant “cite[d] Jackson v. Virginia, [but] ma[de] no argument about the constitutional sufficiency of the evidence” (citation omitted)
• determining no prejudice where the admission of the defendant’s prior conviction was “unlikely to inflame the jury’s passions against him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 25×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 23×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 22×
• Rashad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 21×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 20×
• Charles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 16×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Shellman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 12×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 8×
• Priester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 7×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 7×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 4×
• Steele v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 2×
• Stryker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 2×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• CHAPMAN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Ealey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Eckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 62×
• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 59×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 41×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 36×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 27×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 26×
• Graddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 17×
• Thrift v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-01-11· cited 14×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 14×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 14×