Curtis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• overruling a line of cases in which the Court of Appeals held that a defendant could waive the issue of merger of included offenses by failing to raise it in the trial court
• issue of merger of included offenses not waived by the defendant’s failure to object at trial
• no merger of kidnapping and aggravated assault when knife did not appear until after the asportation of the victim
• a sentence which violates OCGA § 16-1-7 (a) (1), by sentencing a defendant for an offense which is included in another offense, is illegal and void
• gun used only once, to take control of car, not separately as a threat
• aggravated assault conviction merged into armed robbery conviction where there was “no evidence that [the defendant] made any other use of the gun other than to take control of the car”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 192×
• Newland v. Hall
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-05-14· cited 123×
• Nazario v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 116×
• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-24· cited 79×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-21· cited 35×
• Mikell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 34×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Ivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-26· cited 27×
• Funderburk v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 26×
• Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-08· cited 24×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 24×
• Stringer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-01· cited 22×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-10-29· cited 21×
• Coney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-19· cited 20×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 19×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 19×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-26· cited 18×

Cites

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

• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Estevez
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-05-28· cited 236×
• Crumbley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 138×
• Stephens v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-07-06· cited 101×
• Harwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 70×
• Keener v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-11-03· cited 47×
• Culver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-16· cited 41×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-01· cited 37×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-21· cited 31×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-17· cited 29×
• Tiller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 23×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-25· cited 22×
• Teal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-03-04· cited 21×
• Edmonson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-15· cited 21×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 18×
• Kinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-17· cited 18×
• LeGallienne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-07-03· cited 17×
• Basu v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-23· cited 12×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-09· cited 11×
• Alonso v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-24· cited 11×