McGrath v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• proving causation in a vehicular homicide case requires showing that “the defendant’s conduct was the ‘legal’ or ‘proximate’ 23 cause, as well as the cause in fact, of the death” (cleaned up)
• “as long as the defendant’s negligence proximately caused the injury of another, the crime [of vehicular homicide] has been committed, even if there are other factors which also are proximate causes of the injur/’
• jury rejected intervening proximate causes, finding the defendant guilty of vehicular homicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• Hartzler v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 21×
• Snyder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 13×
• Melancon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 7×
• Kirk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 6×
• Dunagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 5×
• Hammill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30· cited 3×
• Christina Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-11
• State v. MONDOR (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28
• Taylor Whitfield Hammill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-30

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 469×
• Zwiren v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 134×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 72×
• Hough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-03· cited 54×
• Hash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-06· cited 50×
• State v. Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 33×
• Stone's Independent Oil Distributors v. Bailey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-06-11· cited 21×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-08· cited 20×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-18· cited 14×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-18· cited 13×
• Ponder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-29· cited 11×
• Corbett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-31· cited 11×
• Baysinger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-16· cited 10×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-10· cited 10×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-17· cited 9×
• McCannon v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-14· cited 9×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 7×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-17· cited 5×