Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• victim was decoyed and robbed at gunpoint, then struck on the head with a hammer, shot with a pistol, jabbed with the cutting point of a shovel, and buried alive while pleading for his life
• victim was decoyed and robbed at gunpoint, then struck on the head with a hammer, shot with a pistol, jabbed with the cutting point of a shovel, and buried alive while pleading for his life
• motion for appointment of expert witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Hopkinson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1981-07-02· cited 259×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-03-16· cited 157×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Hopkinson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1983-05-27· cited 104×
• Alderman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-27· cited 98×
• Joseph Thomas v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-02-10· cited 94×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-08· cited 94×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-24· cited 82×
• Blankenship v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-06· cited 80×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-05· cited 79×
• Cape v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-08· cited 79×
• Lobdell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-12· cited 73×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-05· cited 67×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-06· cited 66×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-03· cited 64×

Cites

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

• Jarrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 209×
• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-06· cited 127×
• 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×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-06· cited 111×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 109×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-12-03· cited 103×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 93×
• Eberheart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-30· cited 89×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-28· cited 88×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-07-18· cited 88×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-04· cited 85×
• 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×
• Ezzard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-09-13· cited 60×
• Dix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-04· cited 60×