Buchanan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Receiving [under OCGA § 16-8-7 (a)] means . . . that the person had the right to exercise power over a corporeal thing, or there exists some evidence, either direct or circumstantial, that the accused was a party to the crime by aiding and abetting its commission.”
• evidence that defendant’s shirt was found inside stolen car insufficient to establish possession or control
• “[M]ere proximity to stolen property is insufficient to establish possession or control.”
• evidence insufficient to sustain conviction for theft by receiving stolen property; although defendant’s shirt was found inside stolen vehicle, no evidence showed that defendant 4 “ever possessed or controlled the stolen car or affirmatively acted as a party to the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-03· cited 17×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-19· cited 9×
• Sillah v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-05· cited 8×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-21· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-15· cited 7×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 6×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-11· cited 6×
• Mock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-16· cited 6×
• Gonzales v. THE STATE
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-18· cited 3×
• The State v. Martinez-Palomino
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-17· cited 2×
• In the Interest of J.B., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-23

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Howze v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-03· cited 25×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-05· cited 23×
• Peeples v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-18· cited 19×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-17· cited 16×
• Igidi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-18· cited 15×
• Cloyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 13×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-28· cited 11×
• Brison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-02· cited 10×
• In the Interest of C. W.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-03· cited 9×
• Landers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 7×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-08· cited 7×
• Toney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-11· cited 6×