Sears v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• approving instruction that child cruelty involves intent to cause physical pain without justification or excuse
• approving instruction that child cruelty involves intent to cause physical pain without justification or excuse
• “[T]he absence of a potentially relevant part of the record is properly construed against the appellant.”
• “The jury’s conclusion that [defendant] acted with malice . . . necessarily means that it would have rejected any accident defense, which is premised on the claim that he acted without any criminal intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 25×
• McCLAIN v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 24×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 17×
• Parrott v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 7×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 7×
• Ogilvie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-09· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 4×
• Schmitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 3×
• John Aubrey Pinkston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 54×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-15· cited 46×
• State v. Nejad
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 45×
• Koritta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 41×
• DeBerry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-04· cited 37×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 33×
• Wilkie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-26· cited 27×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-03-08· cited 18×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 18×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-01-16· cited 16×
• Hannah v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-07-12· cited 15×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-24· cited 8×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-01· cited 6×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 6×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-18· cited 4×