Morris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• description of the crime in the indictment, rather than the code section under which it appears, furnishes the criterion for determining whether the indictment is good
• “It is immaterial what the offense is called in the indictment as long as the averments of the presentment are such as to describe an offense against the laws of the State.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-25· cited 28×
• Smith v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-01· cited 9×
• Sneiderman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 6×
• Cooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 3×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 2×
• State v. Terrell Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-25
• Cornell Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-29
• Antonio Jose Cooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-18
• Andrea Sneiderman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11
• John Marvin Nix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-13
• Leonard Antonio Tate-Jesurum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-22
• State v. Corinna Carmen Crumpton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-12
• State v. Fidelis Besong
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-12-30

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 150×
• United States v. Castro
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-07-12· cited 107×
• Smith v. Hardrick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 95×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Loren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 28×
• Frost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-06· cited 28×
• Hammock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-15· cited 27×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1910-05-12· cited 27×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-03· cited 23×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 22×
• Driggers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-27· cited 20×
• Clarke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-13· cited 19×
• Millender v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-05· cited 18×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-26· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-28· cited 12×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-20· cited 12×
• Beals v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-10· cited 11×
• Salahuddin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-17· cited 11×