Washington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court erred in failing to give a 12 voluntary manslaughter instruction when the victim cut the neck of Washington’s son and days later, “was continuing to make threats and taunts against the life of [Washington’s] son” (emphasis supplied)
• defendant’s reliance in murder trial on defense of justification does not preclude charge on lesser included crime of voluntary manslaughter
• victim had cut defendant’s son, leaving son hospitalized, and victim in the presence of defendant was making taunts and threatening the life of defendant’s son
• “When a homicide is neither justifiable nor malicious, it is manslaughter, and if intentional, it is voluntary manslaughter.” (Citations omitted; emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 79×
• Hambrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-02-24· cited 71×
• Saylors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-25· cited 61×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Flournoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 39×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 37×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Syms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-06-20· cited 20×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-09-09· cited 17×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 17×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-04· cited 16×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 13×
• Brennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 13×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• Mullins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-01· cited 11×
• Dubose v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-31· cited 10×
• Clough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 10×
• Tew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-17· cited 9×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-12-01· cited 9×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 291×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 45×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-23· cited 42×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-05-06· cited 33×
• Gresham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1960-06-09· cited 28×
• State v. Clay
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-07· cited 25×
• Starr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-03-04· cited 16×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-29· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-06-14· cited 14×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24· cited 4×