Vasquez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “even if the same conduct establishes the commission of both malice murder and cruelty to children [in the first degree], the two crimes do not merge”
• noting that an affirmative waiver may occur when a defendant explicitly requests a jury instruction that he later argues on appeal should not have been given
• rejecting defendant’s argument that cruelty to children in the first degree should have merged with his malice murder conviction, citing Linson
• “An affirmative waiver may occur, for example, when a defendant . . . explicitly requests a jury instruction that he later argues on appeal should not have been given.”
• withdrawn arguments are affirmatively waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Doyle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 27×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Moulder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 12×
• Grullon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 11×
• State v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 7×
• Boles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-02· cited 6×
• Huber v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 6×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-08· cited 4×
• Hardy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 4×
• Espinosa v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 4×
• Tyre Gay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Nevins McFadden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Christina McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Dijoun Drake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-14
• Curtis Lee Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-05-02
• Quebin Padilla-Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-20

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• United States v. Quinones
  Second Circuit· 2007-12-28· cited 280×
• United States v. Kon Yu-Leung, Also Known as Johnny Kon, John Ruotolo
  Second Circuit· 1995-04-07· cited 215×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• Shank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 63×
• Childers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1874-01-15· cited 63×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 53×
• Linson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 53×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Brewton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 47×