Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Adams v. Hazelwood (1999), White v. State (2010)
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Johnson v. State · Merrow v. Hawkins · Patterson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crime of malice murder is committed when a person unlawfully causes the death of another human being while acting with express or implied malice. [Cit.] In this definition of the crime, the concept of malice incorporates the intent to kill. [Cits.] Thus, in Georgia, the crime of malice murder is committed when the evidence shows either an express or, in the alternative, an implied intent to commit an unlawful homicide. . . . Thus, a malice murder can be shown not only by evidence that the defendant acted with the “deliberate intention unlawfully to take the life of another human being which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof,” but also by evidence that the defendant acted “where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.” OCGA § 16-5-1 (b). In other words, evidence that the defendant acted with implied malice is, for purposes of demonstrating his guilt of the crime of malice murder, no less probative than proof that he acted with a specific intent to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. State“The rule that mere presence at the scene of a crime is insufficient to convict is actually a corollary to the requirement that the State prove each element of the offense charged. Muhammad v. State, 243 Ga. 404 (1) ( 254 SE2d 356 ) (1979). In the present case, the trial court correctly instructed the jury on the duty of the State to prove each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt and instructed the jury fully on the law of circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not reversible error to fail to charge in the exact language requested when the charge given adequately covers the correct legal principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.