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.

• concluding that the trial court correctly instructed the jury on OCGA § 16-3-21 (b) when the defendant killed the victim during a felony drug deal, even though defendant claimed that he acted in self-defense because the victim pulled a gun during the transaction
• describing aggravated assault as an “inherently dangerous felony” that can support a felony murder conviction
• explaining that “the ‘required evidence’ test only applies where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions” and that “[b]ecause the instant case does not involve two distinct statutory provisions, the ‘required evidence’ test does not apply”
• describing aggravated assault as an “inherently dangerous felony” that can support a felony murder conviction
• “For the reasons discussed above, if we are asked to overrule Heard, the request would require serious consideration.”
• “For the reasons discussed above, if we are asked to overrule Heard, the request would require serious consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 55×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 28×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 26×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 22×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 16×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 14×
• Eberhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 13×
• In THE INTEREST OF T.B., a Child
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Lucas v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 8×
• Gibbs v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-14· cited 8×
• Coates v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-15· cited 8×
• Everett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 6×
• Nosratifard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-20· cited 5×
• Cotman v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-08-14· cited 3×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1952-12-22· cited 657×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-12-03· cited 65×
• Corza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 46×
• O'KELLEY v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 44×
• Mayes v. Daniel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-06-22· cited 44×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-04-18· cited 34×
• State v. Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 33×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-23· cited 24×
• Demery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 23×
• State v. Mitchell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-10-12· cited 18×
• Tauch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-23· cited 17×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-05-11· cited 16×