Pulley 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 law enforcement promises alone are insufficient to render a confession inadmissible and that “[t]here must also be a causal connection between the police conduct and the confession” (citation and punctuation omitted; emphasis in original)
• holding that law enforcement promises alone are insufficient to render a confession inadmissible and that “[t]here must also be a causal connection between the police conduct and the 10 confession.” (Citation and punctuation omitted; emphasis in original)
• observing “the key inquiry is whether the alleged promise actually induced the statement that Appellant seeks to suppress”
• reaction to perceived threat does not constitute provocation necessary to support jury charge on voluntary manslaughter
• trial court did not err in deciding not to charge jury on mutual combat where appellant testified that he threw a television at the victim and killed him only after the victim first attacked him with scissors
• trial court did not err in failing to give charge on mutual combat where defendant testified he threw a television at the victim in order to protect himself after the victim had attacked him with a pair of scissors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Edenfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 43×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 20×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 13×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 12×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 11×
• Winfrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 11×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 9×
• Wilcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-01· cited 6×
• Kessler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 6×
• Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-05· cited 5×
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 4×
• The State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-20· cited 2×
• State v. Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02· cited 1×
• Brett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04
• Short v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28
• State v. Miguel Munoz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02
• Marreese Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-05

Cites

24 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×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 87×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 46×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 37×
• Sinkfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-28· cited 31×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 29×
• Funes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×
• Nelms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-26· cited 23×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-12· cited 21×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 13×
• Patrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 11×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-08· cited 11×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-29· cited 10×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-16· cited 10×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-04· cited 9×
• Etienne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-16· cited 8×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 7×