Welch v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a “person may be deemed to protect all things belonging to the individual, within a distance, not easily defined, over which the influence of the personal presence extends”
• immediate presence can be demonstrated even though property is more than 15 feet from victim at time of crime
• trial court need not give instruction on voluntariness of confessions absent specific request therefor
• where offensive weapon used to detain victim in one room of home while victim’s property taken from another room, property was taken from victim’s “immediate presence” within the meaning of OCGA § 16-8-41 (a)
• in the context of armed robbery, “immediate presence” is construed broadly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-25· cited 101×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-01-23· cited 99×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-05· cited 79×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-26· cited 68×
• Felder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 63×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 43×
• Thorpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 42×
• Painter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-08· cited 42×
• Culver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-16· cited 41×
• Stapleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-29· cited 34×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-25· cited 34×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-07-14· cited 26×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 25×
• Sypho v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-05· cited 19×
• Battle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-04· cited 18×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-11· cited 17×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 16×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Merino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-10· cited 107×
• Clements v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-03-12· cited 45×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1961-09-06· cited 27×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-18· cited 22×
• People v. Moore
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1968-09-24· cited 11×
• Newton v. Palmour
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 4×