Thornton 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 Simmons instruction not required where jury asked question regarding the meaning of “life imprisonment,” but later withdrew it
• autopsy photos admissible to aid medical examiner in describing manner and cause of death
• prosecutor’s statement in closing argument in guilt phase of trial in death penalty case that murder victim “will never leave here,” and “will not leave there for her family” was permissible
• defendant withdrew his demand for speedy trial in open court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 79×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 68×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 60×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 50×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• Bunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 41×

Cites

62 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×
• Oregon v. Elstad
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 2,824×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• McCorquodale v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-12-03· cited 118×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 108×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 100×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×