Manuel v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• judgment vacated and remanded where trial court “personally disagreed with the jury’s verdict” yet found the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict
• judgment vacated and case remanded where trial court “personally disagreed with the jury’s verdict” yet found the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict
• the use of the Jackson v. Virginia appellate standard of review “denotes that the trial court failed to apply its discretion, as the determination ‘if there is sufficient evidence to support the verdict ... is a matter of law, not discretion. (Cits.)’ [Cit.]”
• merely issuing an order in response to a motion predicated on the general grounds does not fulfill this requirement when “the language in the order fails to indicate that the trial court . . . exercis[ed] its discretion under the applicable standard”
• the use of the Jackson v. Virginia appellate standard of review denotes that the trial court failed to apply its discretion, as the determination if there is sufficient evidence to support the verdict is a matter of law, not discretion
• the use of the Jackson v. Virginia appellate standard of review denotes that the trial court failed to apply its discretion, as the determination if there is sufficient evidence to support the verdict is a matter of law, not discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 108×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 60×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 43×
• Choisnet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 41×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 36×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 30×
• State v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 30×
• Farris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 29×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 18×
• Copeland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 16×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16· cited 16×
• State v. Cash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 15×
• Blackshear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 14×
• Wiggins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 12×
• Wofford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-03· cited 11×
• Atkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-20· cited 9×
• Gomillion v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 8×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 8×
• Reinhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18· cited 8×
• Casey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 8×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 102×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-09-13· cited 39×
• Ricketts v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-03· cited 38×
• Alvelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-10· cited 34×
• Thompson v. Warren
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-08-14· cited 31×
• Rutland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-05· cited 27×
• Colzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 27×
• Reeves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 19×
• Priest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-08· cited 13×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-17· cited 13×
• Bhansali v. Moncada
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-04· cited 12×
• Samuels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-04· cited 10×
• Holton v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-10· cited 7×
• Wornum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 7×
• Hamrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-10· cited 4×