Vance v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• decided May 22, 1993, 27 months after trial in the case at bar
• “What is perceived as ‘moral’ may differ from group to group, from class to class, and from individual to individual. This diversity renders any precise definition of‘moral certainty’ elusive, and any uniformity of interpretation by jurors unlikely.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Burgess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-12-05· cited 89×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-06-11· cited 69×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-21· cited 67×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-22· cited 52×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-23· cited 51×
• Keanum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-07· cited 29×
• Waugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 28×
• McClain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-06· cited 27×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 25×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-04· cited 24×
• Greenway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-24· cited 22×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-03-21· cited 20×
• Kidwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-07-05· cited 20×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-02-13· cited 19×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-28· cited 18×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 18×
• Gearin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-08· cited 16×
• Baldwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 16×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×