Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the evidence was sufficient to show that Davis’s participation in a drug transaction with the victim was the proximate cause of the victim’s death
• explaining that drug dealing is foreseeably dangerous, because it is \not unusual in the drug trade\ for parties in the transaction to be armed
• explaining that drug dealing is foreseeably dangerous, because it is “not unusual in the drug trade” for parties in the transaction to be armed
• explaining that an illegal drug transaction, particularly with armed participants, is foreseeably dangerous and thus a predicate for felony murder, and an attempted armed robbery did not break the causal link between the drug deal and the killing
• explaining that an illegal drug transaction, particularly with armed participants, is foreseeably dangerous and thus a predicate for felony murder, and an attempted armed robbery did not break the causal link between the drug deal and the killing
• explaining that drug transactions are foreseeably dangerous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 36×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 32×
• State v. Spratlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 27×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 21×
• Manning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 20×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 20×
• Currier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 19×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-15· cited 18×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 16×
• Pena v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 12×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 47×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-04-18· cited 34×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-06· cited 17×
• Hulme v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 15×
• Brint v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-10· cited 10×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 8×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 7×