Davidson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• firing a gun out of fear to defend one’s own life and the life of others did not show a shooting in the heat of passion sufficient to charge the jury on voluntary manslaughter
• “A charge on voluntary manslaughter is not available to a defendant whose own statement unequivocally shows that he was not angered or impassioned when a killing occurred, and when the other evidence does not show otherwise.” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Funes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 14×
• Baugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-20· cited 10×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 9×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 40×
• Worthem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 35×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 25×
• Webb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 22×
• Riggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-06· cited 19×
• Browning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 16×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 4×