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.

• holding that use of an offensive weapon requires “creat[ing] a reasonable apprehension on the part of the victim that an offensive weapon was being used, regardless of whether the victim actually saw the weapon”
• affirming the trial court’s exclusion of evidence that required the jury to speculate as to its significance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Owens v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22· cited 7×
• Simmons v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-21· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bordenkircher v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-06· cited 2,683×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-05· cited 153×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 131×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Sprouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-05· cited 52×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-17· cited 37×
• Chastain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-05-09· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 25×
• Prins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-14· cited 25×
• Bryson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-29· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-03· cited 19×
• Joyner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-07· cited 17×
• Marlin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-22· cited 12×
• Boatman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-26· cited 9×
• Fluellen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-28· cited 8×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-22· cited 8×
• Rosandich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-11· cited 3×