Givens 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 evidence of a “close relationship” between defendant and a man other than her husband was relevant to the homicide and therefore admissible
• holding that evidence of a “close’ relationship” between defendant and a man other than her husband was relevant' to the homicide and therefore admissible
• holding that evidence of a “close relationship” between defendant and a man other than her husband was relevant to the homicide and therefore admissible
• holding that evidence of a “close relationship” between defendant and a man other than her husband was relevant to the homicide and therefore admissible
• defense opened the door by introducing testimony regarding the life insurance policy, and testimony that the accused intended to pay the shooter with money from insurance proceeds satisfied the nexus requirement
• evidence of prior difficulties between victim and defendant sufficiently corroborated accomplice’s testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• State v. Bell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2015-09-10· cited 89×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-26· cited 61×
• Fairclough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 55×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 53×
• Demons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 47×
• Threatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 42×
• Camm v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-08-10· cited 35×
• Glidewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-27· cited 25×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 24×
• Driggers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 20×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 19×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 15×
• Christian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 14×
• Hames v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 13×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-04· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 12×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-11· cited 11×
• Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-03· cited 11×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 78×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 67×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 65×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Fargason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 48×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 48×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 48×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 47×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 44×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• Woodham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-24· cited 44×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 35×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 35×
• Slakman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-13· cited 35×