May v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• framing the same rule in the broader context of statutory construction
• framing the same rule in the broader context of statutory construction
• “[A]s a general rule at common law, one owes no duty to protect another from injuries inflicted by a third party.”
• “In our search for the meaning of a particular statutory provision, we look not only to the words of that provision, but we consider its legal context as well.”
• “Where there is limitation by a statute which is capable of more than one construction, the statute must be given that construction which is consistent with the common law.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “[C]ontext is a primary determinant of meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Zaldivar v. Prickett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-06· cited 103×
• Chan v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 73×
• Tibbles v. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 70×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Loudermilk
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-07-11· cited 65×
• State v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 57×
• in the Interest of M.F., a Child
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 50×
• Dubois v. Brantley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 41×
• Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Loudermilk
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-13· cited 40×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-14· cited 26×
• Harris v. Mahone
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-01· cited 26×
• Undisclosed LLC v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 25×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 22×
• Algren v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 18×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 17×
• Mornay v. National Union Fire Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-11· cited 14×
• MAYS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-25· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 11×
• State v. COOK (Six Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 11×
• NORTH AMERICAN SENIOR BENEFITS, LLC v. WIMMER
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-04· cited 11×
• ABERCROMBIE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-11-03· cited 9×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Deal v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 498×
• City of Rome v. Jordan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 142×
• Peachtree-Cain Co. v. McBee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-03-14· cited 59×
• Hendry v. Hendry
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 59×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 47×
• Wallace v. Boys Club of Albany, Georgia, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 46×
• Haley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 42×
• Smith v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 24×
• Persinger v. Step by Step Infant Development Center
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 17×
• McGarrah v. Posig
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-28· cited 14×
• Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad v. Jordan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1925-09-09· cited 12×
• Eason Publications, Inc. v. Atlanta Gazette, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-01-28· cited 9×
• Doe v. Andujar
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-06· cited 5×
• Gladson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-17· cited 2×
• Walton v. UCC X, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-22· cited 2×