Montanez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The necessary corroboration may consist entirely of circumstantial evidence, and evidence of the defendant’s conduct before and after the crime was committed may give rise to an inference that he participated in the crime.”
• “However, the evidence may also authorize a properly instructed jury to find that a witness was not an accomplice, and in that case, 11 the testimony of that witness is sufficient to convict the defendant.”
• “The necessary corroboration may consist entirely of circumstantial evidence, and evidence of the defendant’s conduct before and after the crime was committed may give rise to an inference that he participated in the crime.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 16×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 8×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 6×
• Downer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 6×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 5×
• Jahmar Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-04
• Jonathan Douglas MacMillan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-19
• Gayle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Jatarious Bronner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-13

Cites

22 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×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 45×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-09· cited 43×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 36×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• Stuckey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 34×
• Doyle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 27×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 24×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 20×
• Baines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 19×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 19×
• NICHOLSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 18×
• Gilmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-22· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 17×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-27· cited 12×