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.

• trial court did not commit plain error in not defining the terms “deliver,” “delivery,” or “distribute,” as they are all commonly understood words
• child victim died from cocaine ingestion; felony murder predicated on possession of cocaine with intent to distribute affirmed where defendant hid cocaine in a hole in living room sofa within the reach of his young children, creating a foreseeable risk of death
• circumstantial evidence coupled with other evidence sufficient
• circumstantial evidence coupled with other evidence sufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 17×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 11×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-24· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Pippen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 8×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 6×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 6×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 5×
• Campbell-Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 5×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 3×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 2×
• Ruben Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-04
• Cortney Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-18
• McCrory v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16
• Rebecca Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-24
• Paul McCrory v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16
• Susan Lorraine Weidman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27
• Deanta Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-10-14
• Leroy Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-20

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Batten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 58×
• Billings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 58×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 55×
• McKibbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 50×
• Arnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-20· cited 40×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 39×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-03· cited 38×
• Reeves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 35×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 35×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Stacey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 30×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Philpot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 21×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 20×
• Rivers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 18×