Drew v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• opining that criminal defendants are similarly situated for purposes of equal protection only if they are charged with the same crime or crimes
• opining that criminal defendants are similarly situated for purposes of equal protection only if they are charged with the same crime or crimes
• finding sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction under OCGA § 16-10- 56 where the incident occurred while the defendant was being held as an inmate at an adult detention center and in a common area for personal time
• “a prisoner, by virtue of incarceration alone, is not a member of a suspect class for equal protection analysis”
• “Because there is no contention that [the defendant] is punished differently from others accused and convicted of the same crime, ‘there is no unconstitutional disparate treatment of similarly situated persons.’” (Citation omitted.)
• finding incarcerated inmates are not members of a suspect class

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Bunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 41×
• State of West Virgina v. Gabriel Hargus, etc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-11-14· cited 29×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 23×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 10×
• Walker v. Cromartie
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 7×
• Regan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-02· cited 4×
• GLASS SYSTEMS, INC. v. Georgia Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 1×
• Bernard Scales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-03
• Devin Tyler Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-21

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Debro S. Abdul-Akbar v. Roderick R. Mckelvie
  Third Circuit· 2001-01-29· cited 592×
• Lee Hampton v. Ron Hobbs
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-02-13· cited 459×
• Sanders v. Palunsky
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-01-11· cited 97×
• Chiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-03-04· cited 66×
• Tucker, Cornelius v. Branker, G.
  D.C. Circuit· 1998-05-12· cited 63×
• Jae v. Good
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-21· cited 44×
• Proctor v. White Lake Township Police Department
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2002-02-05· cited 42×
• Mehdipour v. STATE EX REL. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 2004-03-30· cited 29×
• Parker v. Gorczyk
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-10-29· cited 22×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 21×
• Barnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 18×
• People v. Carter
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-10-12· cited 16×
• State v. Nguyen
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-01-25· cited 13×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 12×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 12×
• LaCava v. Lucander
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-07-10· cited 12×
• Collins v. Jaquez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2000-11-09· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-10· cited 5×