Christensen 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 the party seeking disqualification has the burden of asserting and showing “good cause”
• concluding that testimony that the victim’s eye socket was fractured and pictures showing the severity of the victim’s eye injury caused by the attack sufficiently supported the defendant’s aggravated battery conviction
• “The offense of ‘aggravated battery’. . . requires additional proof of (i) malice, and (ii) bodily harm which disfigures or renders a member of the victim’s body useless.”
• motion for directed verdict properly denied where evidence showed that victim’s eye socket was fractured, he received multiple stitches, and his eye was severely blackened
• motion for directed verdict properly denied where evidence showed that victim's eye socket was fractured, he received multiple stitches, and his eye was severely blackened
• “A motion for directed verdict is authorized only when there is no evidence to support a conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• State v. Hargis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 33×
• State v. Wyatt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 32×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 31×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-23· cited 19×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-08· cited 18×
• Glover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-18· cited 16×
• Feagin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-30· cited 14×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-18· cited 12×
• Walker v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-21· cited 11×
• Bray v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-05· cited 11×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-01· cited 10×
• Jennings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-23· cited 8×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 8×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-06· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-12· cited 8×
• WALKER v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-11-19· cited 6×
• CROSBIE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-25· cited 5×
• Mizell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-04-07· cited 4×
• Binns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-10· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-25· cited 135×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• State v. Fleming
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-08· cited 79×
• Foskey v. Foskey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-14· cited 72×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-25· cited 65×
• Lyles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1908-03-06· cited 52×
• Baptiste v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-18· cited 47×
• Price v. Star Service & Petroleum Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-02-11· cited 46×
• Stovall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-11· cited 44×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 38×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-12· cited 36×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 29×
• Paradise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-24· cited 25×
• T. G. & Y. Stores Co. v. Waters
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-10· cited 25×
• Richards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-24· cited 22×
• Eberhart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-30· cited 21×
• Rayburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-19· cited 19×
• Quarterman v. Quarterman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 19×
• Brinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-29· cited 17×