JOHNSON v. the STATE.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining if there is some evidence from which the jury could find that “both parties intended to resolve their differences by fighting each other with deadly weapons, then a charge on mutual combat is justified” (punctuation omitted)
• “although the charge on mutual combat may have carried a cost to the justification defense, it presented the benefit of improving the chances that the jury might find [the defendant] guilty of only voluntary manslaughter, not murder”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tucker Hamlette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Darnell Craw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19
• Sanjay Stewartson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-27

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 118×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-17· cited 68×
• Ventura v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 62×
• Sowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 57×
• Cammer v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 55×
• Ashmid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 48×
• Lockhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 44×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 35×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 27×
• State v. Mobley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 23×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-15· cited 18×
• Carreker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 16×
• Millen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-06· cited 15×
• Berrian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 13×
• Reid v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-07· cited 11×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-09-02· cited 10×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-26· cited 10×