Carruth v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting use of the phrase “combat by agreement” in OCGA § 16-3-21(b)(3)
• charge on mutual combat not authorized by the evidence showing either unprovoked fist fight or ambush by defendant
• charge on mutual combat not adjusted to evidence when evidence showed either unprovoked fist fight or ambush and attack by defendant
• first offender record admissible to impeach defendant who claimed he was innocent of the charges underlying the first offender plea
• “Georgia law requires that a criminal defendant inform the court of the specific objection and the grounds for such objection before the jury retires to deliberate. OCGA § 17-8-58 (a).”
• first offender record admissible to impeach defendant who claimed he was innocent of the charges underlying the first offender plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 59×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Venturino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 46×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 25×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 21×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 20×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 17×
• Tobias v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-30· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Cupe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-19· cited 8×
• Rountree v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 7×
• Jackson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-01-25· cited 5×
• Lawrence v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-23· cited 3×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Puckett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-25· cited 5,608×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 40×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 34×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 33×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• Donaldson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-03-10· cited 26×
• Higuera-Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 26×
• Carreker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 16×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 11×