Fordham v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• investigator testified that it was his opinion that there was nothing in the defendant’s statements that would have justified him killing the victim
• where issue was whether defendant killed with malice or with justification, it was improper for officer to testify that there was nothing in the defendant’s statements that would justify the killing
• where issue was whether defendant killed with malice or with justification, it was improper for officer to testify that there was nothing in the defendant’s statements that would justify the killing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-19· cited 89×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×
• Batten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 58×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 57×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Cammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 44×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-09· cited 41×
• State v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-05-29· cited 32×
• Skipper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 31×
• Bly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 30×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-19· cited 29×
• Bailey v. Annistown Road Baptist Church, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-01· cited 27×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 23×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-06· cited 23×
• Huckeba v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-02· cited 21×
• Hayward v. Kroger Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04· cited 20×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-31· cited 19×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Lamb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-07· cited 58×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-18· cited 46×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-06-12· cited 6×

Other cases named Fordham v. State

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Fordham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-05-26· cited 13×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1919-02-13· cited 12×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1906-07-03· cited 10×
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-11-27· cited 1×
• Fordham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1919-11-05· cited 1×
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-04· cited 1×
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-07-07
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-07-07
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-02
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-12-13
• Fordham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-01
• Fordham v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-11-14