Butler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that statements by witness that defendant had been considering robbery were relevant to show defendant’s state of mind close in time to charged crimes and were therefore admissible despite putting defendant’s character in issue
• holding that statements by witness that defendant had been considering robbery were relevant to show defendant’s state of mind close in time to charged crimes and were therefore admissible despite putting defendant’s character in issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ritter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 24×
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-07· cited 6×
• Sheneka Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-07

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 93×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Rini v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 37×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 28×