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.

• upholding voluntary manslaughter conviction, stating that “[t]he test for determining causation in homicide cases is” whether the unlawful injury is “ ‘the efficient, proximate cause of death’ ” (citation omitted)
• applying proximate cause in context of voluntary manslaughter conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-08· cited 17×
• Platt v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 5×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-06· cited 3×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 44×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 32×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 21×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 15×
• Screws v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-24· cited 11×
• Talmadge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-12· cited 9×
• Hagood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-02· cited 9×
• Kunis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-27· cited 7×
• Nguyen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 6×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-03-10· cited 5×