Martin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• the granting or denial of a motion for continuance is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial court
• where fatal discharge of handgun was either intentional or accidental, defendant was not entitled to charge on reckless conduct
• where evidence showed either commission of completed offense as charged or commission of no offense, tried court was not required to charge on lesser included offense
• no trial court error where trial court’s charge on both methods of aggravated assault was subsequently limited to the consideration of the specific method of committing the offense as alleged in indictment
• trial court did not abuse discretion in denying continuance to obtain copies of witness’s convictions where defendant failed to show that they could have been used for impeachment or any other purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 86×
• Harwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 70×
• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-03· cited 67×
• Gulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-08· cited 53×
• Bellamy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 47×
• Columbus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 35×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 30×
• Tessmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-12· cited 29×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-28· cited 24×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-19· cited 20×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 18×
• Elrod v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-13· cited 17×
• Veal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-17· cited 17×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-10· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-10· cited 13×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 13×
• Seay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 12×

Cites

26 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 117×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-12-03· cited 65×
• Lumpkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-23· cited 64×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-10· cited 57×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 54×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-01· cited 53×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 37×
• Rowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-08· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 29×
• Lamb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 23×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-04· cited 21×
• Roland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 18×