Massey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to recharge on circumstantial evidence was reversible error where general instruction on principles of circumstantial evidence was given at the start of a four-day trial
• \It is axiomatic that a trial court does not err in refusing to give a requested instruction in the exact language requested where the charges given in their totality substantially and adequately cover the principles contained in the requested charge.\
• “It is axiomatic that a trial court does not err in refusing to give a requested instruction in the exact language requested where the charges given in their totality substantially and adequately cover the principles contained in the requested charge.”
• “It is axiomatic that a trial court does not err in refusing to give a requested instruction in the exact language requested where the charges given in their totality substantially and adequately cover the principles contained in the requested charge.”
• “It is axiomatic that a trial court does not err in refusing to give a requested instruction in the exact language requested where the charges given in their totality substantially and adequately cover the principles contained in the requested charge.”
• “It is axiomatic that a trial court does not err in refusing to give a requested instruction in the exact language requested where the charges given in their totality substantially and adequately cover the principles contained in the requested charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-04-29· cited 40×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 37×
• State v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-01-22· cited 30×
• Dang v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-03-06· cited 28×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 26×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 22×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×
• Bragg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×
• Tillman v. Massey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 15×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-23· cited 14×
• Hendricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 12×
• Moses v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-16· cited 12×
• Windhom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-11· cited 12×
• Tidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-13· cited 9×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24· cited 9×
• McKenye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-11· cited 8×
• Laing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-11· cited 8×
• Morales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-08· cited 6×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-28· cited 3×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 65×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 64×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Stubbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 44×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 30×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-10-07· cited 27×
• Griffith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-07-05· cited 24×