Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Whether an alternative hypothesis raised by the defendant is ‘reasonable’ is a question committed principally to the jury.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Whether an alternative hypothesis . . . is ‘reasonable’ is a question committed principally to the jury[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 10×
• Kinslow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 10×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 2×
• James Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-12-09
• Matthew Demetrius Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-23
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 33×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 31×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 29×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-07· cited 25×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 8×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-10· cited 4×