Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The mere possibility that someone other than the defendant committed the crime charged in the indictment is not such a reasonable hypothesis as must be excluded in order for circumstantial evidence to authorize a verdict of guilty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-28· cited 13×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-05-30· cited 11×
• Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-03· cited 11×
• McCombs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-27· cited 10×
• Grindle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-27· cited 5×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 4×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bethay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-21· cited 171×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-11· cited 127×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-06· cited 67×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 52×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-12-05· cited 47×
• Eason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-05-08· cited 46×
• Rachel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-11· cited 38×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-05-14· cited 35×
• Sheffield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-06-18· cited 23×
• Castleberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-11-19· cited 20×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-11-01· cited 19×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1954-10-20· cited 17×
• Orr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-03-10· cited 13×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-05-14· cited 13×
• Staymate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-29· cited 11×
• Irwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-11-27· cited 8×