Wideman 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 did not err by failing to in- struct the jury sua sponte on a claim-of-right defense where the defendant was charged with burglary
• no “honest claim of right” jury instruction required for accused who stole one brand of television, when he claimed that victim owed him a different brand of television

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-14· cited 14×
• Crowder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-13· cited 12×
• Scruggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-24· cited 10×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-04· cited 8×
• Buckles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 3×
• Darius Naffis v. George A. Tzavaras
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Battle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Driggers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-07· cited 126×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 64×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-05· cited 23×
• Wainwright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-06· cited 18×
• Coney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-01-07· cited 18×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-02-24· cited 5×
• Jirles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-18· cited 5×
• Edens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-03· cited 2×