Coates v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that: (i) the phrase “any firearm” in the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by convicted felons “does not imply a specific quantity; the quantity is without limit”; and (ii
• vacating the defendant’s four convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm when the trial court erred in failing to merge them for sentencing purposes and remanding the case for the trial court to convict and resentence him on only one of those counts
• “Whether a particular course of conduct involves one or more distinct ‘offenses’ under the statute depends on this legislative choice.”
• “whether a single course of conduct can result in multiple convictions and sentences under the same statute” implicates the doctrine of substantive double jeopardy, “and the ‘unit of prosecution,’ or the precise act criminalized by the statute, must be identified”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 28×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 26×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 16×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 15×
• Edvalson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 14×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Kinslow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 10×
• ALLEN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-11· cited 6×
• David Willard Harrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-26· cited 2×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-19· cited 2×
• COATES v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-09-27
• Kenneth Troy Cobb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-05
• Akeem Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Thomas Edvalson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-05-12
• Russell Calvin McCurdy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Joseph Gene Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• James Lesley MacKy, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Gilbert Alexander Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• United States v. John Preston Rosenbarger, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-06-23· cited 134×
• United States v. William Joseph Valentine
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-04-20· cited 129×
• United States v. Albert Verrecchia
  First Circuit· 1999-11-19· cited 89×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Hankla v. Postell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 46×
• Acey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-09· cited 45×
• Haley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 42×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-03· cited 28×
• Stovall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 22×
• In re Estate of Gladstone
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 9×
• Coates v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-15· cited 8×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 7×