Wallace v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that lay testimony of defendant’s father, sister, and minister was competent, during special plea of insanity, where they testified about defendant’s difficulty carrying on conversations, sniffing gas as a child, and beliefs about phantom illnesses
• “Mental abnormality, unless it amounts to insanity, is not a defense to a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Medina v. California
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-22· cited 1,180×
• People v. Medina
  California Supreme Court· 1990-11-19· cited 253×
• Baxter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 99×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 87×
• James Lee Spencer v. Walter D. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-12-13· cited 82×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• State v. Abernathy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 57×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 49×
• Speed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 49×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Godfrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-24· cited 43×
• Roker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-21· cited 41×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 40×
• Lawler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 37×
• People v. Mixon
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-11-27· cited 37×
• Quick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-07· cited 28×
• State v. Jones
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 28×
• Nwakanma v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 28×
• Selman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 25×

Cites

54 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×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Ham v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-17· cited 622×
• Hawes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 237×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Whitlock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-06-21· cited 133×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-06-20· cited 117×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 111×
• Berryhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 109×
• Corn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 101×
• Spivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-06-08· cited 94×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 94×