Edwards v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing importance of defendants’ admissions to holdings in Sims and Hambrick
• emphasizing importance of defendants’ admissions to holdings in Sims and Hambrick
• if it is highly probable that the failure to give instruction did not contribute to the verdict, reversal is not required
• in light of overwhelming evidence of guilt, it was highly probable that failure to give charge did not contribute to verdict
• no reversible error occurred where it was highly probable that the erroneous failure to give an instruction on lesser included offense did not contribute to the verdict
• jury instruction on lesser included offense required when there was some evidence to support it, but overwhelming evidence of guilt on greater offense made error harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-04· cited 62×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Stovall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-11· cited 44×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 40×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 34×
• Christensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 33×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-28· cited 31×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-15· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-12· cited 29×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-11· cited 29×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Loren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 28×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-14· cited 26×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-03· cited 25×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-28· cited 25×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-13· cited 25×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-27· cited 23×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-16· cited 22×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Alvarado
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-08· cited 76×
• Hambrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-02· cited 58×
• Shepherd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-08· cited 34×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-10· cited 24×
• Belcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-06· cited 16×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-02-04· cited 14×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-17· cited 6×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-07· cited 5×