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.

• determining that defendant’s version of events did not authorize charge on the law of accident, where it showed “at the least, criminal negligence”
• noting that, under First Offender Act, an individual may be ordered to, inter alia, serve the term of imprisonment handed down
• determining that defendant’s version of events did not authorize charge on the law of accident, where it showed “at the least, criminal negligence”
• explaining that the Act “protect[s] the first offender from the stigma of having a criminal record until an adjudication of guilt has been entered with regard to the crime for which the defendant was given first[-]offender treatment”
• underlying humanitarian purpose of first offender statutes is to protect first offender from stigma of having criminal record unless adjudication of guilt entered for crime for which defendant was given first offender treatment
• underlying humanitarian purpose of first offender statutes is to protect first offender from stigma of having criminal record unless adjudication of guilt entered for crime for which defendant was given first offender treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 102×
• Humphreys v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 98×
• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-03· cited 67×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Benham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 57×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 51×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 38×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 35×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 33×
• Manner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 32×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-23· cited 30×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-03· cited 29×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 28×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 27×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• Hawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 27×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-30· cited 25×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 24×
• Bragg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 20×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 157×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-09· cited 84×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 54×
• Koritta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 41×
• Hightower v. General Motors Corp.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-01-09· cited 31×
• Witcher v. Pender
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-06-08· cited 29×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 24×
• Priest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 23×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 18×
• Keye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-11-21· cited 18×
• Braddock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-07· cited 17×
• Tilley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-27· cited 17×
• New v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-04· cited 17×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-26· cited 16×