Collins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that intent may be inferred because “the incident occurred during a heated argument” and because of the perpetrator’s “subsequent flight[,]” as well as from other acts evidence admitted to prove intent
• flight “can serve as evidence of defendant’s consciousness of guilt”
• evidence sufficient to support a reckless conduct conviction where defendant twisted victim's head all the way around and slammed it toward car floorboard, breaking her neck, refused to take victim to hospital or to call her mother, and fled from law enforcement
• evidence sufficient to support a reckless conduct conviction where defendant twisted victim’s head all the way around and slammed it toward car floorboard, 8 breaking her neck, refused to take victim to hospital or to call her mother, and fled from law enforcement
• flight can serve as 8 circumstantial evidence of guilt
• flight “can serve as circumstantial evidence of guilt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• DELEON v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 15×
• Boggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-30· cited 13×
• Wallin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 11×
• Fortune v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-03· cited 11×
• Kegler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-15· cited 8×
• RABIE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-22· cited 7×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-18· cited 6×
• Holsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-21· cited 6×
• Simon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-28· cited 3×
• Ayers-Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-20
• Gregory Lamar Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-23
• Rodney Holsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-21
• Clarence Kegler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-15
• Christopher Simon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-28
• Betty Ayers-Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-20

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Odett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 61×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 51×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-06· cited 30×
• McKibbons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-02· cited 25×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 24×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-23· cited 21×
• Cross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-22· cited 17×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-03· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-12· cited 17×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 16×
• Orr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-03· cited 16×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 15×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-13· cited 13×