Mills v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• describing motions asserting the general grounds as “an appeal to [the judge’s] judicial conscience”
• “It is the duty of the presiding judge, on motion for a new trial properly raising the point, to consider whether the verdict is . . . decidedly and strongly against the weight of the evidence[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Felix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 201×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Kendrick v. Kendrick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-11-08· cited 68×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 60×
• Manuel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 45×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 43×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-07-14· cited 40×
• Hartley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-05· cited 28×
• Rutland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-05· cited 27×
• In the Interest of I. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-01· cited 26×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 18×
• Simpson v. Brand
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-09-04· cited 17×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 16×
• Copeland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 16×
• Tattersall Club Corp. v. White
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-17· cited 14×
• General Motors Corp. v. Blake
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 13×
• Ogletree v. Navistar International Transportation Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-09· cited 10×
• Ricketts v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 8×
• Swift v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-02-08· cited 7×
• Driver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 6×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McIntyre v. McIntyre
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1904-05-12· cited 65×
• McLendon v. Reynolds Grocery Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1925-07-16· cited 36×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-06-11· cited 34×
• Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Randolph
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-05-11· cited 33×
• Livingston v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-02-09· cited 32×
• Thompson v. Warren
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-08-14· cited 31×
• Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Harden
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-05-14· cited 30×
• Taylor v. Central Railroad & Banking Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-02-13· cited 25×
• Dethrage v. City of Rome
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1906-07-05· cited 22×
• Gregory v. Georgia Granite Railroad
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-05-13· cited 14×
• Davis v. Chaplin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-08-04· cited 10×
• Vassie v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-08-10· cited 9×
• Cotton States Seed &c. Co. v. Macon, Dublin & Savannah R.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1919-01-14· cited 9×
• Daniels v. Leonard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1898-12-21· cited 7×
• Kuhnen v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-11-18· cited 7×
• Hendricks v. Southern Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-06-15· cited 4×
• Barnes v. Carey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-12-13· cited 2×