Brooks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the victim's taunting of the defendant, her husband, with a graphic description of her sexual activities with other men authorized a voluntary manslaughter instruction
• concluding that the victim’s taunting of the defendant, her husband, with a graphic description of her sexual activities with other men authorized a voluntary manslaughter instruction
• holding that a provocation defense generally cannot be based on insults
• Adultery is sufficient provocation to reduce homicide from murder to voluntary manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 52×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 39×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 36×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 27×
• Munn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 27×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Elliott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-26· cited 21×
• Syms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-06-20· cited 20×
• MacK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 20×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 15×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 15×
• Heckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 12×
• Gooch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-06-01· cited 12×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-12· cited 11×
• Rodriguez-Nova v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 11×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-07· cited 10×
• Clough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 10×
• Tew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-17· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 47×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 36×
• Aguilar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-28· cited 23×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-03-19· cited 1×