Larkin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding felony murder conviction because defendant “caused his mother-in-law’s death” when he stabbed her after she tried to stop him from assaulting his wife, and his mother-in-law later died from a complication of surgery to re-stitch the knife wound
• knife attack by defendant was proximate cause of victim’s death, where victim died from complications of surgery performed on knife wound
• knife attack by defendant was proximate cause of victim’s death, where victim died from complications of surgery performed on knife wound
• “[w]here one inflicts an unlawful injury, such injury is the proximate cause of death if the injury ‘directly and materially contributed to the happening of a subsequent accruing immediate cause of the death’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-04-27· cited 58×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Elliott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-26· cited 21×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-04· cited 16×
• Bishop v. Kelso
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-10-15· cited 8×
• Melancon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 5×
• Swailes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-23· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 49×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-02-14· cited 27×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-04· cited 7×