Webb v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the defendant was entitled to a charge on both justification and voluntary manslaughter where both were supported by slight evidence, and reversing his murder conviction because the voluntary manslaughter charge was not given
• defendant’s description of altercation and statement that he may have “overreacted” provided slight evidence supporting voluntary manslaughter charge
• trial court should have charged on voluntary manslaughter where victim and defendant engaged in verbal and physical altercation and defendant admitted to police that he had “overreacted” to situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 70×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 33×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 24×
• Nelms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 23×
• Shah v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 19×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• State v. Moon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 10×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24· cited 9×
• Timmreck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 8×
• Davidson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 8×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 8×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 8×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 6×
• Chavez-Ortega v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 3×
• Geter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-07· cited 2×
• Cooper v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-02· cited 1×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 45×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 29×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 27×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 21×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-31· cited 15×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 13×
• McWilliams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-06· cited 10×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 9×