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.

• holding the defendant failed to demonstrate that the trial court’s comment likely affected the outcome of the proceedings given the strong evidence of his guilt
• “Failure to make a timely objection precludes appellate review unless the violation constitutes plain error affecting the substantive rights of the parties.”
• “The amended statute still requires a new trial to be granted if a judge expresses an opinion as to the guilt of the accused. OCGA § 17-8-57 (c).”
• statute establishing appellate review was procedural, not substantive
• statute establishing appellate review was procedural, not substantive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 46×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 38×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 33×
• Bamberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 22×
• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 7×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 7×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 7×
• Sturkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 6×
• Priester v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-23· cited 5×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-10· cited 4×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 2×
• Willie Dobbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-15
• Jeffery Bully v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-11-17
• Antonio Vazquez, Jr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16
• Quebin Padilla-Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-20
• Marcus Hutchins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-04
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29
• Devin Tyler Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Ricky Lewis Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-28

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Polito v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-09· cited 129×
• United States v. John S. Mallon
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-10-06· cited 61×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Murphy v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 33×
• Quiller v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 24×
• Sauerwein v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 23×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 22×
• Manning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 21×
• United States v. Nunemacher
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-03-30· cited 13×
• Palmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 2×