Chapman 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, in holding that the state proved venue, it is a “well-settled principle that public officials are believed to have performed their duties properly and not to have exceeded their authority unless clearly proven otherwise”
• public employees are assumed to be acting properly and not to have exceeded their jurisdiction
• public employees are assumed to be acting properly within their jurisdiction
• public employees are assumed to be acting within their proper jurisdiction
• Police officer’s statement that he was employed on the date in question as a “City of Atlanta police officer, Fulton County, Georgia” and the fact that the Fulton County Medical Examiner did the autopsies on the body was sufficient to prove venue in Fulton County.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Worthen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 55×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Flournoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 39×
• MARTIN v. McLAUGHLIN
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 37×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 36×
• Pippins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-30· cited 34×
• Flanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 33×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 30×
• In the Interest of D. D.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-11· cited 26×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-25· cited 25×
• Branesky v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-27· cited 24×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 24×
• Gipson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-20· cited 23×
• In the Interest of B. R.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-14· cited 21×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-25· cited 20×
• Rosser v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 20×
• Thompson v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 20×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 19×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-26· cited 19×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 243×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 70×
• Sands v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 53×
• Richmond County Hospital Authority v. Richmond County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-21· cited 40×
• Carswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 31×
• Joiner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-10· cited 27×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1929-06-13· cited 23×
• Dolensek v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 22×
• Oliver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 21×
• MacK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 20×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-09· cited 15×
• Frisbey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-11· cited 13×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 12×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-01-12· cited 12×
• Rouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-20· cited 11×
• Emmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-06-14· cited 8×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 7×
• Starling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-09· cited 6×