McCoy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that all objections to the jury charge need not be made at trial and additional objections may be reserved for a motion for new trial or an appeal
• upholding felony murder conviction by finding that the death of a firefighter who fell into a well behind a burning house and died of asphyxiation was “directly attributable” to the defendant’s felonious conduct in setting fire to the house
• upholding felony murder conviction by finding that the death of a firefighter who fell into a well behind a burning house and died of asphyxiation was \directly attributable\ to the defendant's felonious conduct in setting fire to the house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 89×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-12-27· cited 62×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 33×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 33×
• Waugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 28×
• Pickren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 27×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-09· cited 27×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-15· cited 25×
• Paradise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-24· cited 25×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-18· cited 23×
• Leggon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-03· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 19×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 17×
• Hyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 17×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 16×
• Peavy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-08· cited 14×
• Knight v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-27· cited 12×
• Dill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 11×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-12· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-02· cited 141×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• Kessel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-25· cited 54×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 36×
• State v. Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 33×
• Dearmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-12· cited 3×