Nelson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘Mental abnormality or mere weakness of mind is no excuse unless it . . . deprives the offender of the ability to distinguish right from wrong.’ ”
• mere showing of a medical psychosis does not establish legal insanity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brandvain v. Ridgeview Institute, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-11· cited 58×
• Keener v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-12· cited 39×
• Durrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Hall v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 31×
• Nelms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-02-28· cited 20×
• Lewandowski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 20×
• Salter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-05-06· cited 15×
• Tarver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-04-25· cited 9×
• Bracewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-03· cited 5×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 4×
• VanVoorhis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-16· cited 3×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 2×
• Roland Croyle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 109×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-12-03· cited 37×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-03· cited 26×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-31· cited 24×
• Dennis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-04-03· cited 23×
• Chancellor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-02-07· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-03· cited 4×