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.

• aggravated assault and malice murder counts did not merge where medical examiner testified that external injuries on victim’s neck were separate from fatal injuries to the victim’s head
• absent evidence of error, we presume trial courts follow the law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 23×
• Byers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 18×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 18×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 13×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 12×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 8×
• Winslow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 5×
• Hogan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 4×
• Rhynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 2×
• Byrd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 2×
• Stryker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 2×
• Christopher Bolton Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-04
• Derek Alexander Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-05-02
• Vict. v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05
• Victoria v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26
• Jefferson Harvard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-30
• Ryan Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-02-10

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Nazario v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 116×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 83×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 82×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 64×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1947-09-06· cited 57×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Battles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 48×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 45×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 20×
• Reddings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 19×
• Dempsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 17×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 11×
• Burkett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-20· cited 8×