Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of antagonistic relationship involving physical confrontations between victim and defendant did not require a voluntary manslaughter charge
• “As a matter of law, angry statements alone ordinarily do not amount to ‘serious provocation’ within the meaning of OCGA § 16-5-2 (a).” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• no voluntary manslaughter charge was warranted in malice murder prosecution of defendant for killing his stepfather despite the fact that defendant alleged the two had an antagonistic relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 31×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 15×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 13×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 12×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 11×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 10×
• Prothro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 8×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-04-19· cited 7×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 7×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 4×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 4×
• Orr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Heyward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 2×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Demons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 47×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Hall v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 31×
• Humphrey v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 30×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 24×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 24×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 21×
• Lewandowski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 20×
• MacK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 20×
• Partridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-14· cited 18×
• Gresham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 15×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-12· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 11×