Spivey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “the conclusion is inescapable that the legislature meant to empower the jury to consider as mitigating anything they [sic] found to be mitigating, without limitation or definition”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-05· cited 177×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Ivon Ray Stanley v. Walter D. Zant, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Defendant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-05-03· cited 156×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Wilson v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-21· cited 132×
• Ronald K. Spivey v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-16· cited 124×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 113×
• David Peek v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-03-05· cited 112×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Stephens v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-07-06· cited 101×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Johnny Mack Westbrook v. Walter B. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-05-16· cited 95×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 95×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×

Cites

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

• Cupp v. Naughten
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-04· cited 2,639×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Jarrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 209×
• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-04-19· cited 200×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• House v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 125×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-26· cited 124×
• McCorquodale v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-12-03· cited 118×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-28· cited 116×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 109×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-28· cited 88×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 81×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 75×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 65×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-11-02· cited 63×
• Dix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-04· cited 60×
• Lamb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-07· cited 58×