Minor v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is not sufficient that the circumstantial evidence show that the act might by bare possibility have been done by somebody 7 else”
• “It is well settled that the charge to the jury is to be taken as a whole and not out of context when making determinations as to its correctness.”
• “[A]lthough neither victim could identify [the defendant] as a perpetrator of the crimes, circumstantial evidence of identity may be sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Patch v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-26· cited 27×
• The State v. Crist
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-18· cited 26×
• Latta v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-13· cited 16×
• Issa v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• Dimauro v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-26· cited 14×
• Phillips v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 6×
• WILSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-22· cited 6×
• Robert Anthony Clayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-17· cited 3×
• Ward v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18· cited 2×
• Thomas v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22
• Johnson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-29
• Drevoisier Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-16
• Martarius Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-17

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-15· cited 74×
• Toomer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 64×
• Lingo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 59×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 59×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-04· cited 57×
• Cammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 44×
• Rector v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 35×
• Strozier v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 33×
• Woodall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-27· cited 32×
• Vann v. Finley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-01· cited 31×
• Barge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 29×
• Dolphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 26×