Skaggs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that fists and feet were deadly weapons because they were, under the circumstances of the case, capable of producing serious bodily injury or death
• kicking the victim with a steel-toed boot was proximate cause of the victim’s death days later; the victim’s fall head-first onto concrete after being kicked was not reasonably unforeseeable
• In a criminal case, proximate cause exists when the accused’s “ ‘act or omission played a substantial part in bringing about or actually causing the (victim’s
• victim’s injuries and death from fall after being struck in face by defendant reasonably foreseeable
• aggravated assault by kicking and hitting victim, which caused him to fall and sustain fatal injuries, proximately caused death
• generalized statistical evidence concerning fatal traumatic brain injuries was irrelevant to whether the defendant committed the particular homicide at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 98×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 35×
• Hendricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 25×
• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• Chua v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 17×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 17×
• Calhoun v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 17×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 15×
• In the Interest of T. W.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-26· cited 15×
• Chaney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 14×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-19· cited 10×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 9×
• Melancon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 7×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 5×
• Crosby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-06· cited 3×
• Carlock v. People
  Virgin Islands· 2010-11-10· cited 2×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 2×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 59×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 49×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-10-23· cited 25×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 22×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-03· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-02· cited 15×
• State v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-27· cited 15×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-18· cited 13×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-19· cited 9×
• Lawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 9×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 6×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-02· cited 2×