McElrath v. Georgia

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• discussing the meaning of the term “acquittal” in the context of the Double Jeopardy Clause
• hold- ing that, where the defendant had been acquitted of murder based on a specific incident, he could not be retried for that crime based on the same incident
• “[I]t is not dispositive whether a factfinder incanted the word ‘acquit’; instead, an acquittal has occurred if the factfinder acted on its view that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.” (quotation marks omitted)

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Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 9×
• Feder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 6×
• State v. Dodge
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2025-01-16· cited 5×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2025-09-16· cited 5×
• Robert Zane Puckett v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2025-02-19· cited 2×
• State v. Carl Lee McAdory
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2025-07-01· cited 2×
• McElrath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 2×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 1×
• United States v. Aiello
  Second Circuit· 2024-09-23
• Karen Read v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-02-11
• Read v. Norfolk County Superior Court
  First Circuit· 2025-03-27
• Jay Mark LaFleur v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2024-08-27
• United States v. Timothy Lee Baker
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-09-12
• State of Tennessee v. Gavin Allen Clark
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-10-23
• State v. Jerry Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-11-18
• Ellison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Peavy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Engle v. Isaac
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 3,714×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 2,102×
• Dunn v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-01-11· cited 1,678×
• United States v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 1,668×
• United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-04· cited 1,460×
• United States v. Ball
  Supreme Court· 1896-05-25· cited 1,376×
• United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
  Supreme Court· 1906-02-19· cited 1,300×
• Harris v. Rivera
  Supreme Court· 1981-12-14· cited 429×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• Smalis v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 328×
• Smith v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2005-02-22· cited 249×
• Evans v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 2013-02-20· cited 239×
• Bravo-Fernandez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2016-11-29· cited 119×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 54×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• McELRATH v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 37×
• McElrath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 3×