Copeland v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Rules 404 (a) and 405 are read together
• “Specific instances of a victim’s past conduct may … be admitted, not to show the victim’s action in conformity therewith, but rather establish the defendant’s state of mind and the reasonableness of the defendant’s use of force.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 9×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Ryals v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×
• Wood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 2×
• Christopher Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-08
• Mbungu v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Dempsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

24 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• United States v. Gulley
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-30· cited 112×
• United States v. James Allen Gregg
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-06-29· cited 82×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 49×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• United States v. Bordeaux
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-07-07· cited 30×
• United States v. Saenz
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-06-02· cited 30×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 28×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 21×
• Walker v. the States
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 19×