Dowling v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• whenever “statutory ambiguity creates uncertainty as to which sentencing scheme applies, the lesser penalty prevails”
• Whenever “statutory ambiguity creates uncertainty as to which sentencing scheme applies, the lesser penalty prevails.”
• Whenever “statutory ambiguity creates uncertainty as to which sentencing scheme applies, the lesser penalty prevails.”
• “a trial court has discretion to impose consecutive sentences for separate offenses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-01-15· cited 15×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-20· cited 6×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-12· cited 2×
• Lori Ann Abernathy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-09-26
• Kelvin Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-26
• Aaron Grant-Farley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Mark Stephan Newsome, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-11-17
• Nghia Van Huynh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-04
• Mark White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-01-15

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Salinas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-02· cited 1,039×
• United States v. Granderson
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-22· cited 311×
• Crumbley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 138×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 38×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 23×
• Quaweay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-27· cited 14×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-16· cited 10×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 8×
• Woodson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-26· cited 3×