Wright v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• new trial appropriate where a juror, who had twice been convicted of larceny of automobiles, obtained his place on jury by fraudulently impersonating his father and there was no showing of a lack of diligence in raising the challenge to the juror

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1955-06-06· cited 156×
• Beasley v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1957-08-13· cited 40×
• Bank South, N.A. v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-07-11· cited 36×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-13· cited 32×
• Clayton v. Deverell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 26×
• Farrar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-01-10· cited 22×
• Kelley v. Department of Human Resources
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 13×
• Thomasson v. Hudmon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-02-19· cited 7×
• Bitt International Co. v. Fletcher
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-03· cited 5×
• Brady v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1945-06-08
• State v. Embert
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• Darren Rayton Mills, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-22
• CLARK v. LEIGH (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-03-10· cited 50×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-02-12· cited 42×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1913-02-18· cited 21×
• State v. Powers
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1882-03-15· cited 18×
• Taylor v. Warren
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1932-10-13· cited 17×
• Embry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1912-08-13· cited 12×
• Goad v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1900-12-22· cited 12×
• Busey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1897-01-07· cited 7×
• DuPre v. Humphries
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-08-30· cited 3×