Miller 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 jury’s question indicated confusion on the law of proximate cause, trial court erred by failing to instruct jury on that point
• “In vehicular homicide cases, the State must prove that the defendant’s conduct was the ‘legal’ or ‘proximate’ cause, as well as the cause in fact, of the death.” (citations omitted)
• court erred by not recharging the jury on the issue of proximate cause, as requested by the defense, in recharge on homicide by vehicle in the first degree
• evidence that defendant could not have avoided hitting bicyclist because the night was so dark, the bicycle did not have a big enough reflector, and the bicyclist was wearing nonreflective clothing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 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×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• Klaub v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-04-12· cited 19×
• Harridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-18· cited 16×
• Treadaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 16×
• 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×
• Wilcox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 11×
• Corbett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-31· cited 11×
• Stickel v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-06-16· 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×
• Melancon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 8×
• Glore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-06· cited 6×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-20· cited 6×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-07· cited 6×
• Lyons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-14· cited 5×
• Wilkes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-26· cited 5×
• Bess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-28· cited 3×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-26· cited 3×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Ring
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-11-09· cited 111×
• State v. Rivas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-06-01· cited 72×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1937-03-04· cited 54×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-22· cited 35×
• State v. Wong
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1984-10-26· cited 35×
• Fowler v. Gorrell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-12-05· cited 34×
• Kimmel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-24· cited 31×
• Herrin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-06· cited 23×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-17· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Shoup
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-08· cited 21×
• People v. Garner
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-10-23· cited 20×
• McNabb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-10-31· cited 14×
• State v. Woodman
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1987-04-16· cited 13×
• Mote v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-08· cited 13×
• Felske v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1985-09-12· cited 12×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-29· cited 12×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-26· cited 11×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-12· cited 6×