Hobbs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the plea of insanity is . . . an assertion that, even if [the defendant] did commit the act, the law grants him immunity and overlooks the act, because he is mentally incapable of crime” (emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-07-03· cited 72×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-16· cited 21×
• Scoggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1958-10-17· cited 21×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-04· cited 21×
• Bowden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1921-03-16· cited 17×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-09-23· cited 16×
• Holland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1915-10-26· cited 16×
• In THE INTEREST OF T.B., a Child
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Keller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-02-07· cited 12×
• Gallimore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-12· cited 11×
• In Re Brookins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-01-15· cited 10×
• Mosley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1927-12-13· cited 9×
• Tiller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-11-01· cited 7×
• Cutts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1952-09-16· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-05-09· cited 6×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-04-07· cited 5×
• Park v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-04-15· cited 4×
• Waters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-12-04· cited 4×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1914-05-16· cited 4×
• Coppage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-04-12· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-12-20· cited 25×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-12-19· cited 16×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-07-07· cited 14×
• Paulk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-02-09· cited 13×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1857-06-15· cited 8×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-08-11· cited 3×