Howard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• threatening defendant’s family member with a gun outside the defendant’s presence was not slight evidence sufficient to warrant instruction on voluntary man- slaughter
• “Deliberately firing a gun in the direction of another person constitutes aggravated assault.” (Citations and punctuation omitted)
• “Deliberately firing a gun in the direction of another person constitutes aggravated assault.” (Citations and punctuation omitted)
• where no reversible error in jury instruction at issue, appellant could not establish ineffectiveness from trial counsel’s failure to interpose an objection to that instruction
• “Testimony that the victims ran from the gunfire is sufficient evidence that Appellants placed them in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.”
• no plain error where trial court failed to instruct on elements of aggravated assault where undisputed evidence was that perpetrators intentionally fired weapons and defense was mistaken identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 70×
• Pyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-25· cited 57×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Glass v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 30×
• Colzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 27×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 23×
• Norris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 19×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 18×
• Bostic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 16×
• JACKSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 15×
• Cantera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 11×
• Wofford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-03· cited 11×
• Millsaps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-13· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 10×

Cites

44 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×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 98×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• Drane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 53×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-10· cited 44×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 39×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-05· cited 35×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-09· cited 35×
• Lunsford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-10· cited 29×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-09· cited 27×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Gillespie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 26×
• State v. Copling
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1999-12-16· cited 26×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 26×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-07-01· cited 25×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 25×