Godfrey 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, after reversal of a death sentence because the sole aggravating factor was constitutionally infirm, the State could seek the death penalty again, because the grounds for reversal did not go to the sufficiency of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Greenway
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1991-12-03· cited 139×
• Cochran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-04-24· cited 123×
• State v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-28· cited 107×
• Hopkinson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1983-05-27· cited 104×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-28· cited 96×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Robert Franklin Godfrey, Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-03-01· cited 70×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-04-12· cited 61×
• Godfrey v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-11-04· cited 40×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-25· cited 38×
• State v. Cooper
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1986-10-14· cited 32×
• Zant v. Redd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 26×
• Burden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-16· cited 23×
• State v. David
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-04-01· cited 22×
• Langlands v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 19×
• Spraggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-08· cited 14×
• Chaney v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-04-05· cited 13×
• Padgett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-27· cited 5×
• Waye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 5×

Cites

43 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Abney v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-09· cited 2,295×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• United States v. Ball
  Supreme Court· 1896-05-25· cited 1,376×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Gregg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-10-17· cited 190×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 111×
• Alderman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 98×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 95×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×