State v. Crane

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the word \causes\ in the felony murder statute requires not proximate causation, but that the victim's death be \caused directly\ by one of the parties to the underlying felony
• “The choice of whether or not the conduct in the present case should be violative of our criminal statutes lies with the General Assembly.”
• no felony murder under statute when accomplice is killed by burglarized homeowner
• victim of attempted robbery accidentally killed bystander

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 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×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-16· cited 129×
• Ranger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 98×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Vines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 63×
• People v. Hernandez
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-11-16· cited 61×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 47×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-05· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-22· cited 35×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 25×
• Ammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 23×
• State v. Branson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-08-07· cited 22×
• Comer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-28· cited 18×
• Hyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 17×
• Hulme v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-19· cited 15×
• McGrath v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-01· cited 15×
• State v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-05-12· cited 11×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-07· cited 10×
• Vasser v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 9×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Riley v. Garrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1963-10-15· cited 33×