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.

• evidence that defendant was panicked, frightened, and defended himself from attack was insufficient to warrant charge on voluntary manslaughter
• voluntary manslaughter instruction unwarranted where evidence at best showed that defendant was trying to repel an attack, not that he acted in anger
• defendant’s fear of attack by victim bore no hallmarks of passion necessary to support charge on voluntary manslaughter
• voluntary manslaughter instruction unwarranted where evidence at best showed that defendant was trying to repel an attack, not that he acted in anger
• where defendant’s mother hired lawyer for defendant and police refused to let lawyer see defendant, all unknown to defendant, defendant’s subsequent Miranda waiver valid
• evidence of postmortem toxicology report showing presence of cocaine metabolites . . . “too attenuated to warrant speculation about the effects of cocaine on the victim at the time of the shooting.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• SOSNIAK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 61×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 46×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 40×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 40×
• Hernandez v. County of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-06-17· cited 29×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 24×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 23×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-10· cited 23×
• Stinski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-02· cited 22×
• Dillard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 17×
• Axelburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-31· cited 16×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-02· cited 15×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 14×
• State v. Aiken
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 13×
• Harmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-10· cited 12×

Cites

28 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×
• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Gregg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-10-17· cited 190×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 53×
• McDougal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 45×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 40×
• Worthem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 35×
• Hardin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-01-26· cited 29×
• Gabriel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-13· cited 23×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 20×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-07· cited 18×
• Quillian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-03· cited 17×
• Mims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 15×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-31· cited 15×
• Pullin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 14×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 13×