Burns v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a “causal relationship” between the defendant’s act and the victim’s death is required
• trial court did not err by failing to grant mistrial sua sponte

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-07-06· cited 18×
• Weathersby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-24· cited 12×
• Melancon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 8×
• Seagraves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-06-23
• Phipps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-10

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-11· cited 127×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 44×
• Gulf Oil Corporation v. Stanfield
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-07-03· cited 39×
• Riggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-05-21· cited 35×
• Bonds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-04· cited 16×
• Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-06-08· cited 12×
• Braxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-21· cited 12×