Rountree v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “threatening words and racial epithets” did not amount to serious provocation, “no matter how menacing or offensive they were” to the defendant
• racial epithets and threats made directly to the defendant did not require instruction on voluntary manslaugh- ter because “words alone” are not serious provocation
• “objections at a charge conference do not suffice to preserve objections to the charge as subsequently given”
• “objections at a charge conference do not suffice to preserve objections to the charge as subsequently given”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-06· cited 18×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 13×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 7×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Stryker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 2×
• Pinckney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 1×
• Leroy Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-20
• Sanjay Stewartson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-27

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Venturino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 46×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 38×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-23· cited 17×
• Charles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 16×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 15×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 15×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 11×
• Tidwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 7×
• Behl v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 3×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 2×