Fields v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• jury able to find that defendant used greater force than that necessary to defend himself
• “The jury was entitled to conclude that [appellant] was not justified in using force greater than that necessary to defend himself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 74×
• United States v. Paulino Morales-Alonso
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-01-05· cited 27×
• Leslie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 21×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-21· cited 7×
• Whitaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-10· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-30· cited 6×
• Miceli v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-04· cited 4×
• Luckie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-21· cited 3×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-18
• Jorge Alberto Miranda v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-04-03
• Trivynski Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-28
• Nicole Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-30
• Taryn Lashae Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-21
• Robert Olsen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 204×
• Lumpkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-23· cited 64×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 41×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 41×
• Letlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-09· cited 29×
• Silas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-02· cited 3×