Robinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• a confession is “[a]n admission of the main fact, from which the essential elements of the criminal act may be inferred,” without “a qualifying exclusion of a necessary ingredient of the crime charged,” such as “facts or circumstances which show excuse or justification”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-26· cited 101×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-25· cited 72×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 64×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-24· cited 45×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-07-02· cited 45×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-03-07· cited 42×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-11-04· cited 33×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 30×
• Parham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-07-02· cited 29×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-11· cited 27×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-05· cited 24×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-11-30· cited 24×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-18· cited 22×
• Kilgore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-04· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-12· cited 21×
• McFall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-12· cited 20×
• English v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 19×
• Gaines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-04· cited 18×
• Sampson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-17· cited 18×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-06-08· cited 115×
• Dill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-12-05· cited 105×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1892-10-08· cited 75×
• Cauley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-11-09· cited 50×
• Covington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1887-10-14· cited 50×
• Norrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-09-19· cited 34×
• Hooks v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1960-04-12· cited 28×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-02-18· cited 27×
• Conoway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-01-17· cited 24×
• Wingfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-06· cited 22×
• Bloodworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1961-02-09· cited 22×
• Holloway v. Hoard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1913-06-13· cited 6×
• Parker Heating Co. v. Rock Springs Manor, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-09-19· cited 2×