Ford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an accidental shooting of an unanticipated victim by a convicted felon while the felon was unloading a firearm in his apartment could not support a felony murder conviction
• to support felony murder conviction, predicate felony must either be dangerous per se or create foreseeable risk of death under the attendant circumstances
• act of discharging pistol while trying to empty it was not inherently dangerous to human life

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Laney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 55×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 47×
• Raheem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 46×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 41×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 41×
• State v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-08-11· cited 41×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 29×
• Waugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 28×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 26×
• State v. Tiraboschi
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 26×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 26×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-04· cited 155×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-03-27· cited 126×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 117×
• State v. Goodseal
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-07-23· cited 70×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 49×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-15· cited 38×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-12· cited 32×
• Malone v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-27· cited 20×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-05-11· cited 16×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 5×