McCray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where a defendant effectively raises an affirmative defense of justification or self-defense, the State has the burden of disproving that defense beyond a reasonable doubt
• “This Court reviews a trial court’s decision to admit or refuse to admit evidence for abuse of discretion”
• “Direct evidence is that which is consistent with either the proposed conclusion or its opposite; circumstantial evidence is that which is consistent with both the proposed conclusion and its opposite.”
• “Direct evidence is that which is consistent with either the proposed conclusion or its opposite; circumstantial evidence is that which is consistent with both the proposed conclusion and its opposite.” (citation, punctuation, and emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 73×
• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 35×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 27×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 13×
• McCammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 9×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24· cited 9×
• PRIESTER v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 8×
• Cain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 7×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 4×
• Myers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 4×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 4×
• Roscoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 1×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01
• YOUNG v. THE STATE 6-24-2021 Substitute Opinion Issued.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24
• Marie Handberry, as Surviving Spouse of William Donald Handberry, Sr. v. Manning Forestry Services, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-28
• Matthew Demetrius Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-23

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Missouri v. Seibert
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-28· cited 1,541×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 72×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 70×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 59×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 49×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 46×
• Stubbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 44×
• Mosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 40×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 27×
• Dudley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 23×
• Gober v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-16· cited 22×