Hughes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• strictly construing the statute that requires a judge to make a contemporaneous specific finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance before sentencing an accused to life without parole
• strictly construing the statute that requires a judge to make a contemporaneous specific finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance before sentencing an accused to life without parole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Busch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 51×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 50×
• State v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 16×
• State v. Varner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 12×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-21· cited 7×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 7×
• Redd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-24· cited 5×
• Cordova v. the State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20· cited 5×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 2×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 1×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-21· cited 1×
• Cordova, A/K/A Cordoba v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20
• Montavious Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-21

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crumbley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 138×
• United States v. Stinson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-10-10· cited 121×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-20· cited 96×
• Munsford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-11· cited 78×
• Roberts v. Greenway
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-09· cited 75×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 64×
• Bowers v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-01· cited 33×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-10-25· cited 12×