Ortiz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole under OCGA § 17-10-7 (b
• upholding Two-Strikes law imposing life without parole upon conviction of a second “most serious” offense against eighth amendment challenge
• upholding mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole authorized by OCGA § 17-10-7(b)(2) for defendant who commits second \serious violent felony for which such person is not sentenced to death\
• upholding mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole authorized by OCGA § 17-10-7 (b) (2) for defendant who commits second “serious violent felony for which such person is not sentenced to death”
• OCGA § 17-10-7 (b) (2) does not violate prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment or deprive defendants of due process
• OCGA § 17-10-7 does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the federal or state constitutions and does not violate an individual’s due process or equal protection rights.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-03-12· cited 51×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 50×
• Humphrey v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 48×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 46×
• Widner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 42×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 41×
• State v. Morin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-03-20· cited 28×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 21×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-01· cited 20×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-16· cited 19×
• Shuman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-07· cited 16×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-30· cited 14×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-06· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 14×
• Walker v. Hale
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-11· cited 13×
• Redden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-26· cited 12×
• State v. Velazquez
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 12×
• Goings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-26· cited 11×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 397×
• United States v. Timothy Andrew Smith, Stephen Lawrence Swindell
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-09-16· cited 259×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 157×
• United States v. Guillermo Rhodes Cruz
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-06· cited 79×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-05· cited 77×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-09· cited 27×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-04-21· cited 23×
• Isom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-09-26· cited 23×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 18×
• Gavin v. Vasquez
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-09-06· cited 18×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-02-09· cited 8×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-24· cited 6×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-09· cited 4×