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.

• evidence showing that the victim was unarmed at the time of the incident authorized the jury to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was not justified in using deadly force
• evidence of hostile encounters between defendant and the victim authorized the jury to conclude that defendant shot the victim as a result of sudden passion, rather than out of necessity to protect himself
• evidence of hostile encounters between defendant and the victim authorized the jury to conclude that defendant shot the victim as a result of sudden passion, rather than out of necessity to protect himself
• evidence of hostile encounters between defendant and the victim authorized the jury to conclude that defendant shot the victim as a result of sudden passion, rather than out of necessity to protect himself

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Falagian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-23· cited 23×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 21×
• Lambert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-02· cited 20×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-01· cited 14×
• Hughley v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 14×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-02· cited 10×
• Hutto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-11· cited 9×
• York v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 7×
• Crane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-23· cited 4×
• SMERECZYNSKY v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-09· cited 1×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-07· cited 1×
• Margaret Aeger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-18
• Jimmy Wayne Labbee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-10
• Selworth Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-02
• Timothy K. Hutto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-11
• Nekia Shorlet Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-07

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 58×
• Nusser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-18· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-09-09· cited 17×
• Disharoon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-23· cited 16×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-14· cited 12×
• Kramer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-10· cited 12×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-28· cited 6×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-04· cited 6×
• Windham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-06· cited 4×