Whittington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that evidence of insurance policy was relevant to motive in prosecution of defendant who was not beneficiary where victim's husband informed defendant \there was a lot of insurance\ on the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 110×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 95×
• Devier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-29· cited 86×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-22· cited 83×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-11· cited 58×
• Taylor v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 53×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-13· cited 42×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 37×
• Hatcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-05-25· cited 30×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 30×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 21×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-11-04· cited 17×
• State v. Cain
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-10-24· cited 16×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Castell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-16· cited 169×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 144×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-21· cited 106×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-15· cited 71×
• Ramey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-06· cited 51×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-10· cited 50×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-06-18· cited 24×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-20· cited 16×
• Roger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-06-24· cited 11×
• Soto v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-09· cited 5×
• State v. Wingard
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1972-02-22· cited 5×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-07-29· cited 3×