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.

• where there appears from the evidence (or the lack of evidence) some hypothesis pointing to the innocence of the accused, and which tested by all human experience is a reasonable one, this Court may declare it so as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-11· cited 127×
• Townsend v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-11-22· cited 48×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-25· cited 40×
• Cunningham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-12· cited 27×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-10-12· cited 26×
• Neal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-01-30· cited 25×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-20· cited 25×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-10-05· cited 22×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-05-28· cited 22×
• Muckle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-08· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-04· cited 21×
• Gresham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-07· cited 21×
• Dworkin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-09· cited 19×
• Teems v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-02-18· cited 15×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-03-03· cited 13×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-04-17· cited 12×
• Townsend v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-04-04· cited 12×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-05-16· cited 9×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-11-26· cited 8×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-11-21· cited 8×