Ruff v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where a defendant is “found guilty only of felony murder, the underlying felony would certainly be deemed to have merged, as a matter of law, into the felony murder and a separate sentence for that underlying felony would not be authorized” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• TABOR v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 11×
• Mayo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 4×
• Eleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 3×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 35×
• DRAUGHN v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 23×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 16×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 14×
• Vivian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×