Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A party to a felony may be convicted for any murder that occurs as a result of the commission of that felony, without regard as to whether he commits, intended to commit, or acted to commit the murder of the victim.”
• prosecution is not required to prove defendant knew that co-defendant intended to use a gun; the only proof required was that defendant was part of a conspiracy to rob and co-defendant’s “use of the weapon was naturally and necessarily done in furtherance of that crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kemp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 52×
• KEMP v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-19· cited 50×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 44×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 43×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 42×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 37×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 32×
• Menzies v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 31×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-17· cited 27×
• Funes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×
• Paige v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-01· cited 18×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Favors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Boccia v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 11×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-19· cited 10×
• Sams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 10×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-12· cited 8×
• Shakrystin Brinae Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-11· cited 7×

Cites

13 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×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 95×
• Brannan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 47×
• Tessmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 30×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Parham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-03· cited 25×
• Bruce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-06-21· cited 15×
• Tho Van Huynh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-09· cited 14×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-13· cited 13×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-13· cited 8×
• Austin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-09-12· cited 4×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-13· cited 4×