Ward v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• notwithstanding direct evidence of a drug connection, argument in a murder trial concerning a “drug party” was an improper overstatement and warranted jury instructions
• “Reckless conduct involves consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the act will cause harm or endanger the safety of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-21· cited 69×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-03· cited 42×
• Callahan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-16· cited 39×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 37×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-27· cited 25×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-19· cited 22×
• All Risk Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 15×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 15×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 15×
• Hearst v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-17· cited 14×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-07· cited 13×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-25· cited 11×
• Eller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-15· cited 11×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 8×
• Samuels v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-12-04· cited 6×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-19· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-15· cited 2×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 1×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 144×
• Saylors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-25· cited 61×
• Ramey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-06· cited 51×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-10· cited 44×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 36×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-09-15· cited 31×
• Counts v. Moorehead
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-05-07· cited 20×
• Moorehead v. Counts
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-12-04· cited 14×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-03· cited 11×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 7×