Messick v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• during closing, counsel may draw reasonable inferences or deductions from the evidence
• non-suspect’s confession to acquaintance lacked sufficient degrees of trustworthiness because it was made “at the end of an all-day drinking session ten days after the murder”
• arguing reasonable inferences is permissible under OCGA § 17-8-75

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 65×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 49×
• Navarrete v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 33×
• Tollette v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-07· cited 23×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 22×
• Tolbert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-16· cited 17×
• Samuels v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 7×
• Bragg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 5×
• Messick v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2003-10-06
• Telly McNeal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-05
• David Francis Aitken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-12-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 44×
• Stanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 32×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 15×