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.

• discussing the jury's authority to reject a voluntary manslaughter verdict in favor of a finding of malice murder
• discussing the jury’s authority to reject a voluntary manslaughter verdict in favor of a finding of malice murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 12×
• Hatney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 7×
• Stork v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 5×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30

Cites

10 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×
• Dunagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 91×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-12-27· cited 62×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Haley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 42×
• Tiller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 23×
• Baldwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-08· cited 22×
• Futch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 15×
• Wigfall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 6×