Burger v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• if separate act is committed as part of same transaction as that for which accused is being tried, and forms part of res gestae, evidence of it is admissible
• if separate act is committed as part of same transaction as that for which accused is being tried, and forms part of res gestae, evidence of it is admissible
• murder conviction affirmed, sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing
• murder conviction affirmed, sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing
• evidence that defendant’s co-indictee sodomized the victim after they kidnapped him but before they murdered him was admissible as res gestae, even though the defendant was not charged with kidnapping or sodomy, because the offenses were all part of one on-going criminal transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 92×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 81×
• Amadeo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-05-02· cited 68×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-14· cited 65×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-13· cited 57×
• Blake v. Zant
  S.D. Georgia· 1981-04-29· cited 47×
• Godfrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-02-27· cited 39×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-06· cited 33×
• Hittson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 31×
• Echols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-04-13· cited 30×
• Christopher A. Burger, Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-02-05· cited 28×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 26×
• State v. Hopkins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-08-11· cited 26×
• Hamby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-07· cited 21×
• Christopher A. Burger, Cross-Appellant v. Walter A. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-10-13· cited 20×
• State v. Hopkins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-09-06· cited 20×
• McTaggart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-11· cited 19×
• State v. Cassell
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-09-13· cited 14×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 14×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Bacon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-07-14· cited 223×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-23· cited 135×
• Chenault v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-09· cited 134×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-08· cited 94×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 81×
• Wisdom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 71×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-23· cited 64×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-27· cited 49×
• Nunnally v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 48×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 43×