Wilson 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 mere fact that victim of attempted rape was pregnant, without more connection to the attack, was immaterial and inadmissible and would serve only to inflame the jury
• defendant crawled over sleeping husband and attempted to rape wife lying beside him
• “Whether an act was caused by a diseased mind is to be determined primarily from the indicia presented by the act itself, and then from the results of an examination of the physical, moral, and mental condition of 16 the accused before, at, and after the act in question.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-05· cited 177×
• Grace v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-27· cited 39×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-06-15· cited 37×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-10-07· cited 33×
• Terhune v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-12-05· cited 26×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-02-08· cited 24×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-12· cited 23×
• Thomas v. State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-05-14· cited 13×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-09-25· cited 12×
• LANHAM v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-26· cited 7×
• State v. Wierson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 6×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-11-20· cited 5×
• McBride v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-12· cited 2×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 2×
• Mims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-04· cited 2×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-06-30

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1876-01-15· cited 51×
• Danforth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1886-01-05· cited 44×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1895-03-18· cited 38×
• Flanagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1898-03-22· cited 38×