Covington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “When a person only admits certain facts from which the jury may or may not infer guilt, there is no confession.”
• “When a person only admits certain facts from which the jury may or may not infer guilt, there is no confession. We may use the word confessions for admissions, but to sum up mere inculpatory admissions and denominate them a confession, implies that they amount to a confession of guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-06-08· cited 115×
• State v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1906-05-12· cited 80×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-04-25· cited 78×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1892-10-08· cited 75×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-22· cited 71×
• Weaver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-11-15· cited 71×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 64×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-01-28· cited 48×
• The People v. Nachowicz
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1930-06-20· cited 46×
• Powers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-01-24· cited 43×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-09-29· cited 37×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-08-10· cited 36×
• Norrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-09-19· cited 34×
• Rawlings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-11-25· cited 28×
• McCloud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-05-17· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-05· cited 24×
• HARRIS, Alias WILLIAMS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-09-13· cited 23×
• Bloodworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1961-02-09· cited 22×
• State v. Picton
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1899-03-07· cited 20×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-12-15· cited 15×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1879-09-15· cited 50×