Cato v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding no likelihood that the jury, in convicting the defendant of murder, did so on the basis that the aggravated assault “merely put [the 23 victim] in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury”
• on plain error review, aggravated assault instruction that included reasonable fear of immediately receiving violent injury where indictment charged that defendant committed aggravated assault by shooting victim, would not warrant reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Walter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 21×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 12×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 7×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 5×
• LEWIS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-14· cited 4×
• Jiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 4×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 4×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-11-05· cited 3×
• Turner Benton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-08-26
• Cato v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18
• State v. Nyron Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24
• James L. Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-10

Cites

12 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×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 34×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 25×
• Herrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 21×
• Muckle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 20×
• Saffold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 14×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 13×