Walker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor in penalty phase may vigorously urge that a death sentence is the appropriate punishment in the case at hand
• where defendants are charged with both malice murder and felony murder and general verdicts of “guilty are returned, the verdict is to be interpreted as one of felony murder to give the defendant the benefit of the favorable sentencing consequence”
• where defendants are charged with both malice murder and felony murder and general verdicts of guilty are returned, the verdict is to be interpreted as one of felony murder to give the defendant the benefit of the favorable sentencing consequence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 182×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-13· cited 154×
• Childs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 149×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2009-04-02· cited 111×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-22· cited 109×
• Munson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1988-06-29· cited 109×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Baxter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 99×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 98×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-07· cited 90×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 89×
• Tharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-17· cited 88×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-17· cited 81×
• Jefferson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-03· cited 75×

Cites

41 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Barefoot v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 4,617×
• Duren v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 2,373×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Harris v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 618×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-02-12· cited 166×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-10-08· cited 163×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 163×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-27· cited 151×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 144×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Dampier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-20· cited 86×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 86×