Stevens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the jury's finding of the (b)(10) circumstance where the defendant killed a police officer who had stopped him for questioning but where the State \did not prove a technically lawful arrest of the offender\
• reversing the jury’s finding of the (b) (10) circumstance where the defendant killed a police officer who had stopped him for questioning but where the State “did not prove a technically lawful arrest of the offender”
• where we held the identity and background of the victim are relevant issues in a trial of one accused of murder, and found the trial court did not err in allowing the victim’s widow to testify
• evidence properly excluded because it consisted of matters of legislative determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• William Kenny Stephens, Cross-Appellee v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-05-27· cited 136×
• Gates v. Zant
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 136×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-08-23· cited 116×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-26· cited 95×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-03· cited 90×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-10· cited 87×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 87×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-15· cited 71×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-28· cited 56×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 55×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-20· cited 54×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-30· cited 53×
• Jolley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-19· cited 49×

Cites

65 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Jarrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 209×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-05· cited 177×
• Dingler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-08· cited 173×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Mooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-15· cited 148×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Whitlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-06-21· cited 133×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 133×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-28· cited 116×