Colwell 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 trial court had “properly respected Colwell’s right to make the ‘ultimate decision about’ what sort of case to present” (citation omitted)
• holding that the trial court had \properly respected Colwell's right to make the `ultimate decision about' what sort of case to present\ (citation omitted)
• stating defendant was “sentenced to death because of the nature of his crimes, not because of his own desire to die”
• finding a defendant’s two death sentences were not disproportionate punishment where the defendant suffered from mental illness but where nothing in the record suggested that he was incapable of perceiving right and wrong or of understanding the consequences of his actions
• “In the absence of admissible evidence demanding a different result, the trial court did not err in declining to declare execution by electrocution unconstitutional.”
• “[i]n the absence of admissible evidence demanding a different result, the trial court did not err in declining to declare execution by electrocution unconstitutional”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Head v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 133×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• State v. Dunster
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-08-03· cited 120×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 72×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Stinski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 65×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 60×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• Raheem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 46×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-15· cited 45×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 44×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 41×
• Lamar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 41×
• Perkins v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Sealey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-01· cited 36×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 33×

Cites

49 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×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Pate v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 3,039×
• Drope v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 2,695×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Stringer v. Black
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 682×
• People v. Bloom
  California Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 389×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 112×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-22· cited 109×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×