Carter 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 that “[t]he fact that [the victim] may have made a threat against [the appellant’s father] earlier in the evening” of the shooting was not enough to show the appellant was in imminent danger from the victim
• following a physical altercation between the victim and the defendant, victim was shot by defendant as he was running away; the jury charge of justification was not warranted even though the victim had previously threatened a third party and may have had a knife
• “‘[T]he doctrine of reasonable fear does not apply to any case of homicide where the danger apprehended is not urgent and pressing, or apparently so, at the time of the killing.’” (citation omitted)
• “[t]he fact that [the victim] may have made a threat against [the appellant’s father] earlier in the evening” of the shooting was not enough to show the appellant was in imminent danger from the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Cloud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 18×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Rodrigues v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 7×
• Rammage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 4×
• Terrance Scriven v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-01

Cites

17 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×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Brogdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-22· cited 56×
• Turpin v. Christenson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-16· cited 37×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-18· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 27×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 23×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-11-11· cited 22×
• Turpin v. Helmeci
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 19×
• Sturkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 16×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 15×
• McNeil v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 9×
• Cornell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 8×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-20· cited 7×