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.

• applying the merger doctrine where a first degree felony murder statute authorized a conviction for a killing committed during the perpetration of \a felony\
• questioning whether concept of transferred intent from intended victim to third party is still valid under current felony murder statute
• questioning whether concept of transferred intent from intended victim to third-party is still valid under current felony murder statute
• underlying felony was the aggravated assault on another person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Godsey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-11-29· cited 198×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 23×
• Steele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-10· cited 22×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 19×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-20· cited 18×
• Minor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10· cited 15×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 11×
• Howell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1996-05-31· cited 10×
• Davidson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 8×
• Boatright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-17· cited 7×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 4×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-14· cited 1×
• Erica Lashae Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22
• Robert Clayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-10

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×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-07· cited 90×
• State v. Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 33×
• McLendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-02-18· cited 21×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-01· cited 19×
• Coker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-23· cited 14×
• Hart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-11-16· cited 12×
• Wright v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1949-02-15· cited 11×
• Fussell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-12· cited 10×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1911-07-25· cited 7×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-04-19· cited 5×