Metts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to apply rule of lenity when “the two offenses at issue require different conduct”
• refusing to apply rule of lenity when “the two offenses at issue require different conduct”
• looking to elements of offenses of child molestation and furnishing or disseminating harmful material to a minor to determine that the statutes at issue criminalized different conduct
• analyzing merger of aggravated child molestation conviction and chid molestation conviction
• child molestation did not merge into aggravated child molestation because the offenses were proven by different acts of molestation
• child molestation did not merge into aggravated child molestation where the offenses were proven by different acts of molestation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-02· cited 31×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 28×
• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 25×
• Watkins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-10· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-15· cited 22×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-25· cited 18×
• Bowen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-16· cited 17×
• Flewelling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-16· cited 16×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-07· cited 13×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-25· cited 11×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-24· cited 7×
• Robertson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-05· cited 6×
• Snider v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-12· cited 4×
• State v. Shropshire
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 4×
• Martis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 1×
• Jamie Patrick Hahn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Christina McDaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-21

Cites

51 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Blackledge v. Perry
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-20· cited 1,945×
• United States v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 1,581×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Waits v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 72×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Brewton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 47×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Robbins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-20· cited 32×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-13· cited 27×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-03· cited 25×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 25×
• Berman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-16· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-08· cited 23×
• Larochelle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-05· cited 23×
• Duffie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 22×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-17· cited 22×