Fair v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where a criminal statute is worded in the disjunctive, only one disjunctive phrase needs to be satisfied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• William Anthony Brooks v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-23· cited 282×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-08-03· cited 184×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-10-14· cited 127×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Devier v. Zant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-09-23· cited 116×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 86×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Carl J. Isaacs v. Frederick J. Head
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-08-06· cited 84×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-09· cited 84×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 75×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-21· cited 874×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-12· cited 166×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-05· cited 153×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-26· cited 124×
• McCorquodale v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-12-03· cited 118×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-12-03· cited 103×
• Corn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 101×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-08· cited 94×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-09· cited 90×