Brannon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that testimony that the defendant and his wife “went to cursing” and “started to fight and curse” before the defendant killed her was not sufficient to warrant a jury instruction on mutual combat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-09-15· cited 31×
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-04-11· cited 26×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-01-29· cited 18×
• Rider v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1943-04-13· cited 18×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-02-09· cited 14×
• Langford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-05-14· cited 13×
• Gilbert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1956-07-16· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 3×
• Fann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1942-12-02

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1860-03-15· cited 39×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1872-07-15· cited 34×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-05-13· cited 34×
• Gresham v. Equitable Accident Insurance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-07-13· cited 27×
• Waller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-02-23· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-11-11· cited 26×
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-04-11· cited 26×
• Buchanan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-07-15· cited 24×
• Ison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-10-11· cited 21×
• Dorsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-04-04· cited 14×
• Little v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1920-12-15· cited 14×
• Eich v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1929-11-15· cited 13×
• Hart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-11-16· cited 12×
• Clements v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1913-06-16· cited 12×
• Caruthes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1895-01-23· cited 8×
• Higgs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1918-05-16· cited 7×
• Sapp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-08-08· cited 6×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-10-05· cited 6×
• Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. King & Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-03-26· cited 1×