Foster v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing legal distinctions between insanity, mental illness and mental retardation
• “A defendant claiming insanity has the burden of proving this affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• “When a defense of insanity has been interposed, OCGA § 17-7-131 (c
• “A defendant claiming insanity has the burden of proving this affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence; unless the evidence of insanity is overwhelming, a jury determination that the defendant was sane at the time of the crime will be upheld.”
• “A defendant claiming insanity has the burden of proving this affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence; unless the evidence of insanity is overwhelming, a jury determination that the defendant was sane at the time of the crime will be upheld.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-11-22· cited 208×
• Bunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 62×
• Durrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Coats v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-22· cited 16×
• Bruscato v. O'BRIEN
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-12-01· cited 14×
• Layne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-18· cited 9×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-05· cited 8×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 8×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-12-18· cited 7×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 6×
• Norred v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 3×
• Bowman v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 3×
• Ex parte Watters
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-11-10· cited 1×
• State v. Michelle Wierson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-25
• Shane Yerdon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-03

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Spraggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-18· cited 25×
• Laster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 17×
• Whitner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-10· cited 15×
• McDuffie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-06· cited 7×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-06· cited 7×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-20· cited 2×