Cofield v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defense counsel's further questioning of juror on Witherspoon issue allowed, but not questions outside scope of Witherspoon's holding
• defense counsel’s further questioning of juror on Witherspoon issue allowed, but not questions outside scope of Witherspoon’s holding
• defendant failed to proffer evidence to show that the victim was homosexual as a predicate to alleging that victim was killed in a lover’s quarrel
• wherein the trial court itself made no clear determination of the disputed issue of voluntariness, merely a determination that the State’s evidence alone had made a prima facie showing of voluntariness
• wherein the trial court itself made no clear determination of the disputed issue of voluntariness, merely a determination that the State's evidence alone had made a prima facie showing of voluntariness
• failure to instruct jury on elements of crime constituting aggravating circumstance is not error where jury is instructed on elements during the guilt phase of the trial and defendant is found guilty of that offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 144×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• Walraven v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-23· cited 115×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-17· cited 81×
• Putman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-18· cited 71×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-21· cited 69×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 67×
• State v. Slaughter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 48×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 44×

Cites

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

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Lego v. Twomey
  Supreme Court· 1972-01-12· cited 1,930×
• Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-29· cited 1,845×
• Sims v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-23· cited 561×
• Boulden v. Holman
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-02· cited 477×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Bodde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-14· cited 168×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Boulware v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 145×
• Driggers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-07· cited 126×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 92×
• Dampier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-20· cited 86×
• People v. Lanphear
  California Supreme Court· 1980-04-10· cited 77×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-14· cited 65×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-23· cited 64×