Howell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the “substantial step” language in Georgia’s criminal code was adopted from the MPC
• stating that the \substantial step\ language in Georgia's criminal code was adopted from the MPC
• explaining that criminal attempt requires (1) the intent to commit the specific crime, (2) the performance of some overt act towards the commission of that crime, and (3) a failure to complete the crime
• affirming defendant’s conviction for attempted murder where he met with someone he believed was a professional hitman, gave him a description of the victim, the victim’s tag number, a map of her neighborhood, and five-hundred dollars

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 116×
• Dennard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-28· cited 71×
• Miguel Alvarado-Linares v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-08-16· cited 64×
• State v. Melton
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2018-12-07· cited 44×
• Wittschen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-29· cited 28×
• United States v. Church
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1991-01-28· cited 27×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-05-28· cited 23×
• McGinnis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-21· cited 19×
• Rayburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-19· cited 19×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 17×
• MARTIN-ARGAW v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-17· cited 17×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-23· cited 15×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-02· cited 15×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-04· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-04· cited 10×
• United States v. Ward
  S.D. Georgia· 1992-09-15· cited 7×
• Hinton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-28· cited 6×
• Venable v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-03-03· cited 6×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-30· cited 6×
• Rana v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-01· cited 5×

Cites

31 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-02-15· cited 129×
• Braham v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-11-10· cited 97×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-03-15· cited 75×
• Orkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-27· cited 75×
• State v. Mandel
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1954-12-28· cited 67×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-03-18· cited 66×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-10· cited 55×
• Gervin v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-10-11· cited 54×
• Groves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-11-12· cited 54×
• Quaid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-07-02· cited 43×
• Tarpkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 37×
• People v. Adami
  California Court of Appeal· 1973-12-31· cited 36×
• Riddle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-02-24· cited 35×
• Rini v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-11· cited 34×
• Plemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-09· cited 32×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-01-11· cited 30×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-28· cited 30×