Gooch 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 where there was no evidence that the defendant acted as a result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion, the trial court did not err by refusing to charge the law of voluntary manslaughter
• “The better practice on the part of trial courts would be to charge voluntary manslaughter in all instances where requested by the defendant.”
• when requested by defendant, trial court’s delivery of charge on voluntary manslaughter “cannot be reversible error”
• when requested by defendant, delivery of charge on voluntary manslaughter “cannot be reversible error”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Willie James Hall v. Frederick Head
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-10-25· cited 63×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-20· cited 53×
• Hightower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 32×
• Hickson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-02· cited 11×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 10×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 8×
• Hayles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-19· cited 8×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-13· cited 7×
• Duquette v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 4×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 4×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Aldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-02· cited 77×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 52×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 47×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 45×
• Swett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-26· cited 28×
• Duck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-03· cited 24×
• Reeves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-03· cited 18×