McNair v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the rule of lenity does not apply when the statutory provisions are unambiguous
• noting that the rule of lenity provides that statutory ambiguity is resolved in favor of the defendant, who will then receive the lesser punishment
• noting that the rule of lenity provides that statutory ambiguity is resolved in favor of the defendant, who will then receive the lesser punishment
• noting that the rule of lenity provides that statutory ambiguity is resolved in favor of the defendant, who will then receive the lesser punishment
• noting that the rule of lenity provides that statutory ambiguity is “resolved in favor of the defendant, who will then receive the lesser punishment”
• noting the rule of lenity provides that statutory ambiguity is resolved in favor of the defendant, who will then receive the lesser punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 25×
• State v. Hanna
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 18×
• State v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 16×
• Smallwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 16×
• Issa v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• Chynoweth v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-18· cited 14×
• Mathis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-16· cited 14×
• MAYS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-25· cited 12×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-25· cited 11×
• Robert Trim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-11· cited 9×
• Rollf v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 7×
• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-06· cited 7×
• ANDERSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-11· cited 7×
• Hudson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22· cited 6×
• Tamara Cotman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-08-11· cited 6×
• Parham v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-08· cited 3×
• WILKERSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-25· cited 2×
• Gribble v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-05
• Ruben Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-04
• State v. Enan E. Stillman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-07-02

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-25· cited 61×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• McClellan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 43×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 38×
• Falagian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-23· cited 23×
• Fyfe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-07· cited 10×
• Shabazz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 8×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-23· cited 8×
• ROLLF v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 8×