Nelson 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 a delay caused by “the trial court’s overcrowded docket” should be weighed against the State, although not heavily
• explaining that a one-year delay is typically presumed to be prejudicial
• va- cating the trial court’s order denying the appellant’s motion to dismiss on constitutional speedy trial grounds “[b]ecause the trial court would not have been compelled to deny Appellant’s motion to dismiss if it had used the correct factual and legal analysis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kitchens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Doggett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 3,106×
• Moore v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 594×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 168×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• United States v. Frye
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-06-06· cited 105×
• State v. Pickett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 103×
• United States v. Dunn
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-09-19· cited 92×
• Sosniak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 77×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 66×
• United States v. Mendoza
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-05-07· cited 62×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 61×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 58×
• United States v. Jeffrey Olsen
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-01-06· cited 43×
• Brown v. Citizens & Southern National Bank
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-12· cited 42×
• Mullinax v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 39×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• United States v. Black
  Second Circuit· 2019-03-18· cited 35×
• Weis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-25· cited 33×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 30×