Fortson 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 “[a]ny challenge as to the sufficiency of the evidence” relating to convictions that merged or were vacated by operation of law was moot
• even though the defendant did not personally shoot victim and take his cell phone, the jury could reasonably conclude from the evidence that the defendant participated in the armed robbery and was therefore party to the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 23×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 10×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 9×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Bridges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 2×
• BOSTIC v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 108×
• Eckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 62×
• Worthen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 55×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 46×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 36×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 35×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 34×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 26×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 26×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 25×
• Collett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 24×
• Mattox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-30· cited 17×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 17×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 15×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 13×
• Wingate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 12×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 5×
• Bonner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 4×