Bell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting \the self-evident fact\ that a criminal defendant's interest in outcome of case bears on credibility
• aggravated assault conviction should have merged into murder conviction where defendant struck victim multiple times with the same weapon
• direct evidence of guilt included appellant’s inculpatory statement to investigators and witness identification of him as perpetrator
• an appellate court reviewing a trial court’s denial of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal applies the “sufficiency of the evidence” test
• “the State may use direct and circumstantial evidence to prove guilt, and an appellate court reviewing a trial court’s denial of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal applies the ‘sufficiency of the evidence test of Jackson v. Virginia”
• “the State may use direct and circumstantial evidence to prove guilt, and an appellate court reviewing a trial court’s denial of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal applies the ‘sufficiency of the evidence test of Jackson v. Virginia’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lucky v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 57×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• Gunn v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-08-02· cited 36×
• Finley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 34×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 34×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 21×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 20×
• Reddings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 19×
• Lacey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 16×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 12×
• Gautreaux v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-13· cited 9×
• Pendley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 9×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 7×
• Walker v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-14· cited 7×
• Rader v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-08· cited 6×
• Sewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-14· cited 6×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 6×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 6×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 243×
• Johns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 59×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 49×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 42×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-09· cited 39×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 38×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 34×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 29×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-25· cited 19×
• Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-07-11· cited 17×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 16×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 12×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 11×
• Ludy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-17· cited 8×
• McCloud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 5×