Knight v. State

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 strictly construed against the state and liberally in favor of human liberty
• Mandatory sentencing of second offenders does not violate separation of powers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-12-05· cited 66×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 50×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 49×
• Washington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 44×
• State v. Wooten
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 42×
• Moran v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-05-07· cited 41×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 41×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-03· cited 40×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-01-04· cited 38×
• Krier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-23· cited 29×
• State v. Luster
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-23· cited 27×
• State v. Mills
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-01-12· cited 27×
• Gilbert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 26×
• Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-11-10· cited 25×
• Paras v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-02· cited 25×
• Bankston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-04-20· cited 24×
• State v. Shepherd Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-23· cited 23×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 23×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bordenkircher v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-06· cited 2,683×
• Oyler v. Boles
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 1,736×
• Spaulding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 63×
• Creamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-11-09· cited 61×
• Gee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 57×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1930-01-15· cited 44×
• State v. Martin
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1973-05-04· cited 15×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1874-07-15· cited 14×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-07-01· cited 11×