MARTIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was not unforeseeable that “someone might get shot during the commission of such an obviously dangerous and illegal enterprise”
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a motion for mistrial where, among other things, the trial court promptly gave a curative instruction and asked the jurors if they understood the instruction and the jurors responded that they did
• rejecting the defendant’s speculative argument that the jury was misled by the charge, and so finding that the defendant had not demonstrated plain error
• photograph of victim holding his son was not overly prejudicial, as the son was also a victim in this case, and the jury was “well aware” of the son and “aspects of their relationship”
• “all of the participants in a conspiracy are criminally responsible for the acts of each, committed in the execution of the conspiracy, and which may be said to be a probable consequence of the conspiracy, even though the particular act may not actually have been part of the plan”
• malice murder case; foreseeability of death during armed robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 14×
• CLEMENTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 12×
• Holloway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 7×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 5×
• Daniel Ramirez-Ortiz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Cortney Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-18
• Deanta Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-10-14
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Christopher Baggett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-05
• Darnell Craw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19

Cites

29 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×
• Pinkerton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-10-14· cited 3,200×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 102×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Guajardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 47×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 45×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 43×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 34×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 24×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 21×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 20×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Everritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 14×