Donaldson 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 a showing that a defendant is “illiterate” or lacked a certain level of education “does not, without more, show that he was incapable of understanding his Miranda rights when they are read to him”
• holding that a showing that a defendant is “illiterate” or lacked a certain level of education “does not, without more, show that he was 28 incapable of understanding his Miranda rights when they are read to him”
• “[m]utual combat is not a mere fight or scuffle. It generally involves deadly weapons and the mutual intention of using them”
• “(m)utual combat is not a mere fight or scuffle. It generally involves deadly weapons and the mutual intention of using them”
• \Mutual combat is not a mere fight or scuffle.\
• “Mutual combat is not a mere fight or scuffle.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 38×
• William Alvin Smith, Cross-Appellee v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-12-04· cited 35×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-23· cited 28×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 26×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-11-21· cited 19×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-29· cited 14×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-05· cited 11×
• William Alvin Smith, Cross-Appellee v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-08-26· cited 10×
• Creson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-09· cited 9×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Lawton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-07· cited 8×
• Timmreck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 8×
• State v. TRIPP (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 6×
• Denney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-04-12· cited 4×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-07· cited 4×
• State v. Osborne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-09· cited 4×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-13· cited 4×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 3×
• Fitzhugh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-19· cited 2×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×
• Cunningham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-13· cited 48×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 36×
• Gunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-07-02· cited 11×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-10-28· cited 11×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-04-20· cited 10×
• Appleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-14· cited 9×