Crawford 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 there was no error in not giving mistake-of-fact charge where “any mistake on Crawford’s part as to the identity of his intended target was solely the result of his own failure to identify the source of the noise before he fired”
• noting that, “generally speaking, ignorance or mistake of fact constitutes a defense to a criminal charge only if it is not superinduced by the fault or negligence of the party doing the wrongful act” (cleaned up)
• defendant could not raise grounds on appeal that were not raised below challenging the admission of the deceased’s death certificate
• under the principle of transferred justification, “no guilt attaches if an accused is justified in shooting to repel an assault, but misses and kills an innocent bystander”
• no transferred justification where defendant did not fire fatal shot that hit bystander “to repel an actual assault, since the purported assault upon him was at an end”
• Under the principle of transferred justification, “no guilt attaches if an accused is justified in shooting to repel an assault, but misses and kills an innocent bystander”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 41×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• Robles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 38×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 34×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-28· cited 32×
• Skaggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 29×
• Gabriel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-13· cited 23×
• Holland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-16· cited 18×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 18×
• Quillian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-03· cited 17×
• Bostic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 16×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 15×
• State v. Thackston
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 14×
• Baise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-14· cited 10×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-19· cited 10×
• Robert Trim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-11· cited 9×
• Kalb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-16· cited 8×
• Atkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-08· cited 8×
• The State v. Wood
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-30· cited 5×

Cites

36 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×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-16· cited 129×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-12-03· cited 103×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Milton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 57×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 48×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-01-17· cited 31×
• Eiland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-11-26· cited 30×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 30×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1893-10-09· cited 30×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-01· cited 28×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-04-19· cited 20×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-10-16· cited 19×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-07-05· cited 19×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-19· cited 15×
• Nash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-27· cited 14×