In re J. M.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that right to privacy guaranteed by Georgia’s constitution is triggered by age of consent
• applying Powell to invalidate adjudication of delinquency for violating fornication statute
• fornication statute was unconstitutional to the extent it criminalized “the private, non-commercial, consensual sexual acts of two persons legally capable of consent[]”
• Georgia’s constitution provides citizens a “fundamental constitutional right to ‘be let alone,’ provided they are not interfering with the rights of other individuals or of the public.”
• reversing a conviction under Georgia's fornication statute, O.C.G.A. § 16-6-18

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Senters
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2005-06-24· cited 47×
• Black v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-10· cited 44×
• State v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2025-01-10· cited 19×
• Abrams v. Massell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-08-14· cited 14×
• Groves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-15· cited 13×
• Engle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-21· cited 9×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 7×
• In Re Cochran
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-17· cited 1×
• In Re JM
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13
• York v. Longlands Plantation
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-03-04
• Richard Cates, Administrator of the Estate of Roger D. Cates v. Cynthia Melissa Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• MERIWETHER & THARP, LLC v. CRYSTAL RIMERT
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Green v. Georgia
  N.D. Georgia· 2014-09-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Minnesota v. Olson
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 1,715×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 106×
• Ambles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-11· cited 75×
• Gouldman-Taber Pontiac, Inc. v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-11-08· cited 50×
• Athens Observer, Inc. v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-01-04· cited 38×
• MacOn-bibb County Water & Sewerage Authority v. Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-12· cited 26×
• In re C. P.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-05· cited 4×