Fleet Finance, Inc. v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• criminal statute “must be construed strictly against criminal liability and, if it is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, the interpretation most favorable to the party facing criminal liability must be adopted”
• criminal statutes must be strictly construed against criminal liability even in the civil context
• penal statute “must be construed strictly against criminal liability and, if it is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, the interpretation most favorable to the party facing criminal liability must be adopted”
• criminal statutes “must be construed strictly against criminal liability and, if [a statute] is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, the interpretation most favorable to the party facing criminal liability must be adopted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Vines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 63×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 54×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 38×
• Alexander Properties Group, Inc. v. Doe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-13· cited 36×
• Spivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-29· cited 31×
• Johnson v. Fleet Finance, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-10-19· cited 31×
• Glinton v. AND R, INC.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 30×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 21×
• S & A Industries, Inc. v. Bank Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-01· cited 20×
• Rainey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-11· cited 13×
• Rutter v. Rutter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 13×
• Ultra Telecom, Inc. v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 7×
• Williams v. Powell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-21· cited 6×
• Ronald Ruth v. Cherokee Funding LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-27· cited 3×
• Ransom v. Fleet Finance, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-10· cited 3×
• Morrow v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-10-19
• MERIWETHER & THARP, LLC v. CRYSTAL RIMERT
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Bailey v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n
  S.D. Georgia· 1994-03-28
• Charles Rutter v. Stacy Rutter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13

Cites

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

• Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co.
  Supreme Court· 1954-04-05· cited 208×
• Collins v. Union Federal Sav. & Loan Ass'n
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-04-21· cited 139×
• Tanner Development Co. v. Ferguson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-10-19· cited 90×
• B. F. Saul Co. v. West End Park North, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1968-10-02· cited 42×
• Norris v. Sigler Daisy Corporation
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-06-08· cited 31×
• Harvard v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1916-08-16· cited 31×
• French v. Mortgage Guarantee Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1940-08-01· cited 27×
• Clarke v. Havard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-07-11· cited 27×
• Bankston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-04-20· cited 24×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-08-19· cited 22×
• Jobson v. Masters
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1924-04-16· cited 22×
• Knight v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-09-05· cited 21×
• MONTGOMERY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'N v. Baer
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1973-08-10· cited 21×
• Dent v. Associates Equity Services Co. (In Re Dent)
  S.D. Georgia· 1991-08-28· cited 20×
• Savannah Savings Bank v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1896-08-03· cited 19×
• Carsello v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1964-06-08· cited 14×
• Green v. Equitable Mortgage Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1899-07-21· cited 13×
• Williams v. First Bank & Trust Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-06-16· cited 11×
• Evans v. Avco Financial Services of Georgia, Inc. (In Re Evans)
  S.D. Georgia· 1991-07-15· cited 11×
• Crowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1932-02-16· cited 10×