Willis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• previous incident showed accused’s temper and propensity to act violently and impulsively in response to disappointment, jealousy or misunderstanding
• prior incident showed defendant’s temper and his propensity “to act violently and impulsively to disappointment, jealousy or misunderstanding”
• prior incident showed defendant’s temper and his propensity “to act violently and impulsively to disappointment, jealously or misunderstanding”
• prior instance in which defendant fired gun during dispute over potato chips was admissible in case where defendant repeatedly fired gun during verbal confrontation
• evidence sufficient to show aggravated assault where gun was seen and heard in defendant’s presence, defendant fired the gun into an apartment, and indictment charged defendant with shooting at, toward, or in the direction of the victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-12-09· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-03· cited 43×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-26· cited 37×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 23×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 21×
• McKibbons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-14· cited 20×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-29· cited 18×
• Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-17· cited 15×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-30· cited 15×
• Norris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-09· cited 13×
• Salahuddin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-17· cited 11×
• Caldwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-20· cited 11×
• Hickson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-02· cited 11×
• Malone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-12· cited 7×
• Shy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-28· cited 5×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-17· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-27· cited 4×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Cantrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-10· cited 31×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-06· cited 27×
• Feagin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-01· cited 16×
• Hansen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-08· cited 15×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 13×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-23· cited 12×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-29· cited 11×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-21· cited 11×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-03-08· cited 6×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-08· cited 5×
• Norton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-11· cited 4×
• Bussey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-14· cited 2×