Kennedy 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 a jury could find a toddler experienced cruel or excessive physical pain from evidence of “the child’s age, the extent of her injuries, the nature of the assault to which the child was subjected, and the force with which the child was struck”
• noting the only required mental state for cruelty to children is malice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-16· cited 45×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 41×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-12· cited 40×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 36×
• Nix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 35×
• Folson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 17×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 16×
• Massey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-17· cited 15×
• Grayer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 13×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• ROUEN v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-12· cited 10×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 9×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-24· cited 8×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-12· cited 8×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-17· cited 8×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-20· cited 8×
• Hinds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-13· cited 6×
• Chapa v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 6×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 5×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Camphor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 56×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 48×
• Brewton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 47×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-09· cited 41×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 36×
• London v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 30×
• Kitchen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 22×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 20×
• Sturkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 16×
• Peters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 13×
• Seay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 12×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 12×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-30· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-18· cited 8×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-30· cited 5×
• Preddie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-15· cited 3×