Green v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that an essential element of obstruction is that “the officer was in the lawful discharge of his official duties at the time of the obstruction”
• recognizing defense of property other than habitation as an affirmative defense
• no error when judge stated that burden of proof was met on an issue but did so outside presence of jury and submitted question to jury
• “[t]he [s]tate was required to prove the lawfulness of the arrest in order to prove an essential element of the offense [of obstruction of a law enforcement officer]”
• “a request to charge itself must be correct, legal, apt, even perfect, and precisely adjusted to some principle involved in the case. If any portion of the request is inapt or incorrect, denial of the request is proper”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-28· cited 46×
• Davenport v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-02· cited 37×
• Christensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 33×
• Ojemuyiwa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-31· cited 28×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-09· cited 25×
• State v. Ealum
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-28· cited 20×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-04· cited 19×
• Lightning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 17×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 16×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-12· cited 16×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-23· cited 14×
• Griffith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-30· cited 13×
• Reedman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-19· cited 13×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-20· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-16· cited 11×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 10×
• Helton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-04· cited 8×
• Department of Transportation v. Robinson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 7×
• Cadle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-11· cited 7×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Shirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 89×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-04· cited 66×
• Brantley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-30· cited 34×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-15· cited 31×
• Pouncey v. Adams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-02· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-03· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-06-05· cited 21×
• Hightower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-17· cited 16×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-06-11· cited 15×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-05· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-23· cited 8×
• Woityra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-15· cited 8×
• Stone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 7×