Anderson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, when a defendant requests a jury charge, the trial court “must give the instruction if there is ‘slight evidence’ to support it,” and “[t]he existence, or not, of that ‘slight evidence’ is a question of law”
• “[T]hreats and insults on their own are not enough to support a voluntary manslaughter instruction.”
• “[T]hreats and insults on their own are not enough to support a voluntary manslaughter instruction.”
• “Decisions regarding trial tactics and strategy may form the basis for an ineffectiveness claim only if they were so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have followed such a course.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 5×
• Heyward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 5×
• Pinckney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 1×
• Lecharles Jacoby Harrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-04-30
• Hilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Profet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Norwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Hills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19
• Tabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

34 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Strother v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 39×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 33×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 32×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 30×
• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 24×
• Wyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 20×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 20×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 15×