Bennett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The sun of justice shines alike for the evil and the good, the just and the unjust.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Georgia Power Co. v. Puckett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1935-10-23· cited 85×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1936-12-03· cited 76×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-26· cited 58×
• State v. Dudley
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1910-06-14· cited 43×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 41×
• Forney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-01-07· cited 37×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-07-23· cited 34×
• Bland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-10-14· cited 33×
• Aldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-03· cited 31×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-08-18· cited 29×
• People v. Prevost
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1922-07-20· cited 29×
• Smoot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1916-11-15· cited 28×
• Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Morrison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-08-05· cited 22×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-03-16· cited 20×
• Nixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1914-01-20· cited 20×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1912-03-19· cited 19×
• State v. Martin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1926-10-11· cited 17×
• Redfearn v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1912-02-24· cited 15×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1929-04-13· cited 14×
• Cook v. Latimer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1962-10-18· cited 13×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1851-10-15· cited 277×
• Mitchum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1852-07-15· cited 175×
• People v. Bodine
  Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors· 1845-07-15· cited 81×
• Woolfolk v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-02-11· cited 64×
• Cluck v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1872-11-15· cited 54×
• Fletcher v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1874-11-15· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-10-19· cited 29×
• Fox v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1880-05-18· cited 26×
• School Town v. Shaw
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1885-02-12· cited 20×
• Henries v. Vogel
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1877-09-15· cited 12×
• Ackley v. People
  New York Supreme Court· 1850-09-03· cited 6×
• Goggans v. Monroe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1860-08-15· cited 5×
• Forsyth v. Cothran
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1878-08-15· cited 4×
• Johnson v. Slappey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-06-02· cited 3×