Carson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• provision of Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act prohibiting the keeping and carrying of sawed-off shotguns does not violate state constitution
• evidence supported finding that defendant owned sawed-off shotgun found in vehicle of which defendant was driver, sole occupant, and owner
• \The burden is on the appellant to show harm as well as error.\
• “The burden is on the appellant to show harm as well as error.”
• “the question in each case being whether the particular regulation involved is legitimate and reasonably within the police power, or whether ... under the name of regulation, [it] amounts to a deprivation of the constitutional right”
• a firearm statute “was not arbitrary or unreasonable to prohibit the keeping and carrying of sawed-off shotguns, which are of a size such as can easily be concealed and which are adapted to and commonly used for criminal purposes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Putman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-10-18· cited 71×
• Robertson v. City and County of Denver
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1994-05-02· cited 64×
• Benjamin v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-07-25· cited 50×
• Carfield v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 41×
• Mosby v. Devine
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-06-10· cited 34×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-03· cited 28×
• State v. LaChapelle
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-02-16· cited 26×
• Hertz v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-04· cited 22×
• Smith & Wesson Corp. v. City of Atlanta
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 18×
• Myrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-02· cited 15×
• Rakestraw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-05· cited 15×
• Atkinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-03-13· cited 13×
• Stoker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-03-12· cited 12×
• Winfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-10· cited 11×
• Martasin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-06-30· cited 10×
• Lacy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-03-24· cited 10×
• State v. Mendoza
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-06-21· cited 9×
• Capellan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-28· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-04-16· cited 7×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Chenault v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-09· cited 134×
• Nunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1846-07-15· cited 131×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-05-15· cited 43×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-10-05· cited 42×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-20· cited 40×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-03-02· cited 21×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 19×
• Guy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-03-08· cited 19×
• Glover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-06-24· cited 13×
• Union v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-11-09· cited 13×
• Epps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-03-20· cited 10×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-04-20· cited 8×
• Waller v. Conner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1963-02-11· cited 7×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-04· cited 7×
• Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1933-03-24· cited 5×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-06-13· cited 3×
• Colfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1930-04-16· cited 2×