Fugitt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] defendant’s character in general, and his conduct while in prison, are relevant to the question of sentence. [Cits.]”
• declarant’s inquiry about amount of insurance not hearsay because statement not offered to prove truth of matter asserted
• “[A] defendant’s character in general. . . [is] relevant to the question of sentence.”
• “What the victim said simply does not fall under the hearsay rule, since it was not offered ‘as an assertion to show the truth of the matters asserted therein.’ [Cit.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 98×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• Jefferson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-03· cited 75×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• Blankenship v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-19· cited 55×
• Rigenstrup v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-06· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 47×
• Demetrios v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 45×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 44×
• Perguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-10· cited 38×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-25· cited 38×
• Childress v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 37×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 29×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Hurston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-12· cited 27×
• Peterkin v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-27· cited 26×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Baxter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 99×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 92×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 78×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 71×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 67×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 64×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-03· cited 64×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-05· cited 63×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-07-14· cited 56×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-05-16· cited 49×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-13· cited 47×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-05· cited 27×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-10· cited 26×
• Douthit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 25×
• Fugitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-19· cited 8×