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.

• stating that an appellate court uses the standard of Jackson v. Virginia to review a trial court’s denial of a directed verdict of acquittal or the denial of a motion for new trial based on OCGA §§ 5-5-20 and 5-5-21
• whether to grant a new trial under OCGA § 5-5-21 is solely in the discretion of the trial court; an appellate court does not have the same discretion
• although defendant had a blood alcohol content of 0.19 at the time she made the statement, defendant was coherent and did not appear to be under the influence to the extent that she could not comprehend her rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 60×
• Batten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 58×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 44×
• John Daniel Blue v. Maria Deguadalupe Lopez
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-08-28· cited 44×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 43×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 34×
• Dockery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 29×
• Rutland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-05· cited 27×
• Colzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 27×
• Watkins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-10· cited 25×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 25×
• MacK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-05· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 14×
• Biggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 14×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 13×
• Al and Zack Brown, Inc. v. Bullock
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-26· cited 9×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 267×
• Corn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 101×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24· cited 76×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 62×
• Ricketts v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-03· cited 38×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 37×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-10-21· cited 27×
• Booker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-15· cited 16×