Fowler 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 defendant’s admissions following officer’s statement of “something to the effect that it looked like [the defendant was] in a heap of trouble and it would behoove him if he shot straight with us” was admissible
• statement by police that it would “ ‘behoove’ ” defendant to “ ‘[shoot] straight with us.’ ”
• defendant’s statement not rendered involuntary by fact that officer told him it would “‘behoove him if he shot straight [with] us’”
• no hope of benefit when police stated it would “behoove [defendant] if he shot straight with us”
• defendant’s statement not rendered involuntary by fact that officer told him it would “ ‘behoove him if he shot straight [with] us’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 89×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 43×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 37×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-23· cited 28×
• McAllister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 25×
• Baldwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-08· cited 22×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 22×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-10-17· cited 14×
• McNabb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-10-31· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 13×
• State v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-10· cited 11×
• Screws v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-24· cited 11×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-05-22· cited 10×
• Harrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-30· cited 9×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-13· cited 9×
• McCoy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-01-27· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 8×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-04-07· cited 114×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-05-20· cited 48×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-06· cited 39×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-06-22· cited 36×
• McLemore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1935-11-16· cited 26×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-10-11· cited 23×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-28· cited 18×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-02-22· cited 8×