Ruffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that evidence that the defendant acted in self-defense does not support an instruction on voluntary manslaughter based on mutual combat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×
• Tepanca v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20· cited 22×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 18×
• Shockley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 14×
• Knighton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 13×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Rigsby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 4×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 86×
• Nance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-28· cited 70×
• Saylors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-25· cited 61×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-11· cited 29×
• Pulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 25×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 21×
• Lawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 11×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-09-22· cited 10×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-07· cited 9×