Weston 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 the difference between competency, the “mental capacity to be placed on trial,” and an insanity defense, by which a defendant may assert he “did not have mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong” at the time the crime was committed (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• Browder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 28×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 25×
• MOORE v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 24×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 23×
• Barron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 22×
• McIntyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 15×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 8×
• Wigfall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 6×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 1×