Petro v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing cases merging terroristic threats into aggravated assault pursuant to former “actual evidence” test when determining that “required evidence” test did not require merger of terroristic threats into aggravated assault
• although victim did not testify, testimony of eyewitness who saw the encounter was sufficient to sustain aggravated assault conviction
• evidence supported aggravated assault conviction, where defendant pointed butcher knife at victim when victim tried to intervene in an attack, and victim then fled from the residence and crouched behind a vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gipson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-20· cited 23×
• Thompson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 6×
• Epperson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-12-28· cited 6×
• The State v. Wilkerson.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-07-30· cited 5×
• In the Interest of J.H., a Child v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Alejandro Huerta-Ramirez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21
• Tyler Alexander Bass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-07-23
• State v. Jason Edwin Wilkerson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-07-30

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Quiroz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-06· cited 48×
• Sidner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-09· cited 42×
• Zilinmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 36×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 28×
• Hartley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-05· cited 28×
• Maskivish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-03· cited 26×
• Stuart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28· cited 26×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-28· cited 16×
• Hinton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05· cited 15×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-16· cited 14×
• Echols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-02-14· cited 14×
• McLeod v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-24· cited 14×
• Herrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-13· cited 13×
• In the Interest of J. A. C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-30· cited 12×
• Hobby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-19· cited 11×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-30· cited 11×
• Crowley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-02· cited 11×