Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• first offender’s guilty plea does not constitute a conviction until an adjudication of guilt is entered
• first offender's guilty plea does not constitute a conviction until an adjudication of guilt is entered
• where offender’s 1991 first offender probation had not been revoked, it had not become a conviction
• where first-offense probation fulfilled or not revoked, offense cannot be used for purposes of recidivist sentencing
• “[u]nder the first offender statute, until an adjudication of guilt is entered, there is no conviction”
• \Only a court that imposed first offender probation has authority to revoke that status; it is the only legal authority that can formally adjudicate the offender.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-21· cited 79×
• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-27· cited 52×
• Hedden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 23×
• Cook v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-08· cited 13×
• Collins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-14· cited 12×
• MAYS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-25· cited 12×
• Quinn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-12· cited 9×
• Headspeth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-19· cited 7×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 7×
• Villegas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-27· cited 6×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-30· cited 5×
• Spinner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-27· cited 5×
• Swan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-13· cited 5×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 4×
• Land v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-21· cited 3×
• KINSEY v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 3×
• Ingram v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-23· cited 2×
• Wheeler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 2×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-24· cited 1×
• State v. Sparks
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2019-05-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 65×
• State v. Wiley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-18· cited 52×
• State v. Mills
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-01-12· cited 27×
• Priest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 23×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-16· cited 21×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-16· cited 11×
• State v. Boyd
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-21· cited 7×
• Bliss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-24· cited 7×
• Brantley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 5×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-20· cited 3×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 3×