Lindsey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Reckless conduct is an act of criminal negligence, rather than an intentional act, that causes bodily harm or endangers the bodily safety of another”
• “Reckless conduct is an act of criminal negligence, rather than an intentional act, that causes bodily harm or endangers the bodily safety of another”
• felony murder conviction vacated under Edge where verdict unclear as to which of four separate aggravated assault charges served as underlying felony
• “[T]he defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt in the construction of an ambiguous verdict[.]”
• “Reckless conduct is an act of criminal negligence, rather than an intentional act, that causes bodily harm or endangers the bodily safety of another”
• “[a] defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt in the construction of an ambiguous verdict”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Dunagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 91×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-12-27· cited 62×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 54×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 31×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• STEPP-McCOMMONS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 25×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 23×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-11· cited 19×
• Lumpkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 17×
• Soto v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 17×
• Leslie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-07· cited 14×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 12×
• Perryman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-26· cited 11×
• Salyers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 8×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Blankenship v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-06· cited 80×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 54×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-10· cited 44×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-09-07· cited 15×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 14×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 5×
• Peters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 5×