Stephens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant’s statement regarding his dire financial condition was relevant to establish motive for arson
• holding that defendant’s statement regarding his dire financial condition was relevant to establish motive for arson
• finding defendant’s statement to emergency room technician regarding his dire financial condition to be relevant to issue of motive for arson
• finding defendant’s statement to emergency room technician regarding his dire financial condition to be relevant to issue of motive for arson
• “When the jury charge given substantially covers the principles in the requested charge, it is not error to fail to give the requested charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Minor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-10-29· cited 54×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-10· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-28· cited 21×
• Cleveland v. Bryant
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-15· cited 13×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 11×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-11· cited 9×
• Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-10· cited 9×
• Brantley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-18· cited 7×
• Graf v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-17· cited 6×
• McBurrows v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-07· cited 5×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-01· cited 4×
• Tela v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 3×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-15· cited 2×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-11· cited 2×
• Kendrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26· cited 2×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-08· cited 1×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-14
• Beniam Dawit Tela v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-18
• Josephine Kendrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26
• Keith McBurrows v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-07

Cites

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

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Burris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-24· cited 43×
• Krier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-23· cited 29×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-22· cited 26×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-09-12· cited 24×
• Keen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 24×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-10-16· cited 22×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-09· cited 21×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-29· cited 20×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-12· cited 20×
• Corson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-01-05· cited 18×
• Weeks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-10· cited 16×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-07-10· cited 15×
• McCulligh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-02· cited 15×
• Waters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-05-01· cited 11×
• State v. Grandison
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-14· cited 11×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-10· cited 10×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-13· cited 8×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-04-24· cited 7×
• Kosal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-29· cited 6×