Hance v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming death sentence; prosecutor’s statement to jurors that “they would not be responsible for [the defendant’s] execution” did not diminish the jury’s sense of responsibility or deny the defendant fundamental fairness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 86×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Hance v. Kemp
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 44×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 35×
• Patillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-27· cited 26×
• Humphrey v. Nance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 23×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 21×
• Housel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-05-19· cited 17×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-06-25· cited 17×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-19· cited 15×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 15×
• William Henry Hance v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-03-11· cited 12×
• Turnipseed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-09· cited 11×
• Newland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-04-14· cited 10×
• Parker v. Turpin
  N.D. Georgia· 1999-08-13· cited 7×
• Hance v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-16· cited 2×

Cites

30 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×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 100×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Cape v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-08· cited 79×
• Orkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-27· cited 75×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-22· cited 71×
• Alderman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-28· cited 69×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 67×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 65×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-07· cited 60×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-11· cited 58×