Metz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “As we have explained, a request to charge must be legal, apt, and … be authorized by the evidence.” (cleaned up)
• “Before an Act of the legislature can be declared unconstitutional, the conflict between it and the fundamental law must be clear and palpable and this Court must be clearly satisfied of its unconstitutionality.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19
• Booze v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

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

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 2,855×
• Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 1,862×
• Parker v. Levy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 1,846×
• United States v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 2008-05-19· cited 1,677×
• City of Chicago v. Morales
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 1,379×
• Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-21· cited 703×
• Rose v. Locke
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 516×
• Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
  Supreme Court· 2018-06-14· cited 177×
• James P. Crocker v. Deputy Sheriff Steven Eric Beatty
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-04-20· cited 152×
• Smith v. City of Cumming
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-05-31· cited 120×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 65×
• United States v. Blair Cook
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-08-17· cited 31×
• Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance v. Pryor
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-04-29· cited 25×
• Bullock v. City of Dallas
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-17· cited 24×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×
• Bello v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 20×
• Styles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 20×
• Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Steiner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 16×
• Smallwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 16×