Mathis v. State.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[appellate courts] will affirm a trial court’s ruling if it is right for any reason”
• holding there was strong evidence of guilt from which the jury could find defendant guilty of malice murder and reject his argu- ment that he was guilty merely of voluntary manslaughter based on his claim that he shot his wife after she reached for his gun during a heated argument
• affirming trial court’s admission of evidence under the right-for- any-reason rule
• “[This Court] will affirm a trial court’s ruling if it is right for any reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Greeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 24×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 17×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 16×
• Bradford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 15×
• Mayberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 7×
• Durham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-28· cited 6×
• The State v. Domenge-Delhoyo
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 6×
• McGuire v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-16· cited 2×
• Medina v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-04· cited 2×
• State v. McCarter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-02· cited 1×
• State v. Tunkara
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 1×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-26
• State v. Monique Domenge-Delhoyo
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15
• Antoine Latroy Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-11-10
• Snow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• National Tax Funding v. Harpagon Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 71×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 68×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 38×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-10· cited 37×
• McBride & Co. v. Macon Telegraph Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-06-10· cited 30×
• Wooten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 6×
• In Re Garnett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 3×
• State v. Price
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-06· cited 1×