Allen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “When the General Assembly changes the language of a statute, that typically signals an intent to change the meaning of the statute.”
• “[W]ords alone are almost never suf- ficiently provoking.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dias v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 11×
• Brundage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 2×
• Pinckney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 1×
• Chestnut Ridge, LLC v. Hall County Board of Tax Assessors
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Hills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 52×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 47×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 45×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Gregoroff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 38×
• Transportation Insurance v. El Chico Restaurants, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 36×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 36×
• Marks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 35×
• Goforth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-15· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-19· cited 30×
• Mays v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-12-28· cited 30×
• Culmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 29×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 28×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×