Tarpley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no voluntary manslaughter charge was warranted where evidence showed that appellant was attempting to repel an attack, not that he was so angered that he reacted passionately
• “no voluntary manslaughter charge was warranted where at best, the evidence shows that [the appellant] was attempting to repel an attack, not that he was so angered that he reacted passionately”
• though trial counsel failed to ensure that certain evidence was produced to the State or adduced at trial, the evidence was “merely cumulative of other witnesses’ descriptions … and [the defendant’s] own testi- mony,” so the defendant showed no prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 19×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 10×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 8×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 6×
• Kinlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 4×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 2×
• Rayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 2×
• Kalone Antoine Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-01-23
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Rease v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

21 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×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Zamora v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 54×
• Laster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 53×
• Rector v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 51×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-04· cited 43×
• Worthem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 35×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 34×
• Higuera-Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 26×
• Norris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 21×
• Browning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 16×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 14×
• Austin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 14×
• Keita v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 12×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-23· cited 6×
• Shackelford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-22· cited 5×