Messenger v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Georgia Constitution “commands the three departments 24 Case: 18-11060 Date Filed: 02/11/2020 Page: 25 of 33 of the government . . . to refrain from imprisoning a single person for debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Eickhoff v. Eickhoff
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-25· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-11-15· cited 17×
• Ziahonna Teagan v. The City of McDonough, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-02-11· cited 15×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-22· cited 8×
• State of Ga. v. Higgins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-03-05· cited 4×
• State v. Schuman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-14· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Taylor v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1942-01-12· cited 46×
• Whittle v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1944-10-06· cited 28×
• Savannah Guano Co. v. Stubbs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1912-07-11· cited 6×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1942-03-09· cited 1×