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.

• “Whether or not a provocation, if any, is such a serious provocation as would be sufficient to excite a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion in a reasonable person, reducing the offense from murder to manslaughter, is generally a question for the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Browder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 28×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 24×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 16×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 13×
• Mallory v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-12-01· cited 11×
• Wigfall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 6×
• McGuire v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 6×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-15· cited 5×
• Respress v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Roseborough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 3×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 3×
• Stafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-07-15· cited 3×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-04-09· cited 3×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-04
• Lybrand v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-22

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-15· cited 148×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-05-21· cited 43×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-16· cited 38×
• Teal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-09-08· cited 26×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-05· cited 17×
• Addison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-09-28· cited 9×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-01-16· cited 6×
• Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-06-29· cited 2×