Conner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that it was error for the prosecutor to argue in closing about his prior prosecution experience and the frequency with which 17 he had sought the death penalty
• concluding that it was error for the prosecutor to argue in closing about his prior prosecution experience and the frequency with which he had sought the death penalty
• recognizing that counsel may “condemn motives, so far as they are developed in evidence”
• wrong for prosecutor to \go outside the facts appearing in the case and lug in extraneous matters\
• appellant not entitled to instruction on unlawful act involuntary manslaughter when victim was beaten severely and “the number of wounds inflicted leaves no doubt on the question of intent or voluntariness” (Citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 307×
• William Anthony Brooks v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-23· cited 282×
• People v. Thompson
  California Supreme Court· 1988-04-28· cited 231×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Richard Tucker v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-23· cited 94×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×

Cites

47 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Mitchum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-07-15· cited 175×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Coley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-03-08· cited 150×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 100×
• Alderman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 98×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-28· cited 88×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-10· cited 87×