Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where any uncertainty develops as to which penal clause is applicable, the accused is entitled to have the lesser of the two penalties administered.”
• substance appeared to be ten dollar dosage unit of crack cocaine, based on the substance’s color, shape, size, texture, and overall appearance
• “Where any uncertainty develops as to which penal clause is applicable, the accused is entitled to have the lesser of the two penalties administered.”
• where same conduct constituted both a felony and a misdemeanor, lenity required defendant to he subjected to the penalties for the misdemeanor rather than the felony
• “Where any uncertainty develops as to which penal clause is applicable, the accused is entitled to have the lesser of the two penalties administered.” (punctuation omitted)
• “Where any uncertainty develops as to which penal clause is applicable, the accused is entitled to have the lesser of the two penalties administered.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Goldberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 39×
• Selfe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-09· cited 30×
• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 25×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 23×
• State v. Hanna
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 18×
• Smallwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 16×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-01-15· cited 15×
• Quaweay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-27· cited 14×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-13· cited 14×
• Dawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-22· cited 11×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-25· cited 11×
• Dowling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-14· cited 10×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-13· cited 9×
• NORDAHL v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-26· cited 9×
• Shabazz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 8×
• Orr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-01· cited 6×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-20· cited 6×
• Bryson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-23· cited 6×
• Sosebee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Gee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 57×
• McClellan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 43×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-27· cited 26×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-04· cited 19×
• State v. Burgess
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-03· cited 16×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-13· cited 10×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-09· cited 7×
• Billups v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 2×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-27· cited 2×