Dumas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• verdicts are mutually exclusive where it is “both legally and logically impossible to convict [the accused] of both counts”
• trial court acted correctly by requiring jury to resume deliberations after a mutually exclusive verdict was returned
• trial court refused on its own motion to accept verdicts finding defendant guilty of intentional and unintentional homicide
• trial court refused on its own motion to accept verdicts finding defendant guilty of intentional and unintentional homicide
• verdicts are mutually exclusive where it is \both legally and logically impossible to convict [the accused] of both counts\
• trial court acted correctly by requiring jury to resume deliberations after a mutually exclusive verdict was returned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Kolokouris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 71×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 54×
• Flores v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 42×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 41×
• McELRATH v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 37×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Ex Parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-01-12· cited 32×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 31×
• Kimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-03· cited 31×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 31×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 26×
• Huntley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 26×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Shepherd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-30· cited 24×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 24×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Milam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 180×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-13· cited 57×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-03· cited 23×
• Smashum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 17×
• Parker v. Mooneyham
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-22· cited 13×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-17· cited 7×