Battles v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no fatal variance when indictment alleged that defendant struck the victim with a wrench and the testimony at trial was that defendant struck the victim with a gun “because a wrench and gun produce similar injuries when used as blunt objects to strike someone on the head”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Battles v. Chapman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 59×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-02· cited 29×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-10· cited 23×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-07-03· cited 22×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-12-29· cited 20×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-30· cited 16×
• Huey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-07· cited 16×
• Chadwick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-02· cited 14×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-11· cited 14×
• Calhoun v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-27· cited 13×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-13· cited 13×
• Souder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 10×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-12· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-19· cited 9×
• London v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 8×
• Tillman v. Cook
  D. Utah· 1998-08-31· cited 8×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• De Palma v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-09-08· cited 211×
• Dobbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 72×
• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 69×
• Quick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-12· cited 41×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-09· cited 36×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-19· cited 30×
• Witherspoon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-06· cited 22×
• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-09· cited 17×
• Givens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-02-15· cited 13×
• Cash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-10-25· cited 10×