Pope v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the statute that classifies the records of the Board of Pardons and Paroles must yield to a capital defendant’s constitutional right to mitigating evidence
• requiring a showing of such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of OCGA § 15-12-20 as would vitiate the jury arrays
• noting the distinction between intent and insanity: the defendant “may be capable of formulating a plan with an awareness that carrying out the plan will likely result in the death of another, and yet be incapable of understanding the difference between right and wrong”
• “[W]e ‘do not find here such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute as would vitiate the arrays/ ”
• \[W]e `do not find here such disregard of the essential and substantial provisions of the statute as would vitiate the arrays.'\
• policy reasons for preserving the secrecy of parole files must give way to capital defendant's need to uncover and present mitigating evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

144 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• von Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 454×
• State v. Bey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-02· cited 292×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Nash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 122×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-22· cited 109×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-22· cited 98×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-26· cited 95×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×

Cites

53 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Burgett v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,632×
• Marshall v. Lonberger
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 1,618×
• Leland v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 1,010×
• Davis v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-12-06· cited 352×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Cargill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-18· cited 172×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Rivera v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 155×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-18· cited 137×
• Chenault v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-09· cited 134×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 129×