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.

• recognizing that after Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, 97 S.Ct. 2861, 53 L.Ed.2d 982 (1977), and Eberheart v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 917, 97 S.Ct. 2994, 53 L.Ed.2d 1104 (1977), death sentence may not be imposed for crime of kidnapping where victim is not killed
• ordering that the three types of cases at issue there “should be docketed in the Court of Appeals from which they will be transferred for review to this court”
• determining that “capital felony” means “felonies to which the death penalty is affixed as a 8 punishment under given circumstances,” as opposed to felonies “in which under no circumstances would death ever be inflicted as a penalty” (citation, punctuation and emphasis omitted)
• “capital felony” means “ ‘felonies to which the death penalty is affixed as a punishment under given circumstances,’ ” as opposed to felonies “ ‘in which under no circumstances would death ever be inflicted as a penalty’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• State v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-21· cited 372×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-04· cited 155×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-06· cited 127×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Alpha Otis O'Daniel Stephens v. Walter Zant, Superintendent
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-11-26· cited 100×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 81×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 75×
• Presnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-07· cited 71×
• Bowden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 68×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 65×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 65×
• Harlin Phillip Seritt, Jr. v. State of Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-05-03· cited 43×
• Cheeley v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 43×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-12-03· cited 42×
• Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Rayle
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 41×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-06-26· cited 38×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-12-03· cited 37×
• Weatherbed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-22· cited 30×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gregg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-10-17· cited 190×
• Welborne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-03-10· cited 114×
• Eberheart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-30· cited 89×
• Cæsar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1907-02-18· cited 47×
• American Mills Co. v. Doyal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1932-03-16· cited 10×
• Carparking, Inc. v. Chappell's, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-11-08· cited 5×