Yates v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence presented a jury question whether the defendant shot a marshal who was trying to arrest him in a spirit of malice toward the marshal or whether he shot the marshal simply to prevent the marshal from unlawfully arresting him or in self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fincher v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1921-10-24· cited 53×
• Thacker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-02-13· cited 34×
• Spence v. Morrow
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1907-07-13· cited 29×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-06-05· cited 21×
• Diamond v. Marland
  S.D. Georgia· 1975-05-28· cited 16×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 16×
• Yancey v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of NY
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-09-12· cited 13×
• Corbin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1950-03-03· cited 11×
• Tompkins v. West
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-02-22· cited 8×
• State v. Koon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-01-07· cited 7×
• Bullington v. Chandler
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-11-20· cited 7×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-09-12· cited 6×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-06-15· cited 5×
• Wright v. American Mutual Liability Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-02-08· cited 3×
• Pueblo v. Gil de Lamadrid
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1950-02-24· cited 3×
• Clay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-04-12· cited 1×
• Yeates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1907-11-15
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1943-04-13
• City of Atlanta v. Hayes
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1908-02-14
• Carroll v. Burns & Son
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1926-07-13

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-11-20· cited 50×
• Briggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1886-11-18· cited 47×
• Maxwell v. Harrison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1850-01-15· cited 39×
• Rafferty v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1874-01-15· cited 33×
• Rafferty v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1873-09-15· cited 27×
• Williford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-11-10· cited 22×
• Wahl v. Walton
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1883-06-20· cited 21×
• Herndon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-07-12· cited 20×
• Cryer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1893-10-15· cited 8×
• Geaham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-11-15· cited 6×