Owens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges to propose a rule to reduce post-conviction delays
• explaining that “even if long-delayed appeals rarely result in outright reversals of convictions or only retrials or resentencings, these extended and unjustified delays in resolving criminal cases make our State’s criminal justice system appear unfair and grossly inefficient”
• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia to submit to this court for approval a proposed Uniform Rule of Superior Court to address the problem of unjustified delays in ruling on post-conviction motions
• “reiterat[ing] that it is the duty of all those involved in the criminal justice system . . . to ensure that the appropriate post-conviction motions are filed, litigated, and decided without unnecessary delay”
• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia to submit to this court for approval a proposed Uniform Rule of Superior Court to address the problem of unjustified delays in ruling on post- conviction motions
• reminding the bench and bar that we do not condone inordinate delays in the appellate process as such “delays put at risk the rights of defendants and crime victims and the validity of convictions obtained after a full trial” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-15· cited 141×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 79×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 25×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 25×
• Walter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 21×
• Gadson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 17×
• Lord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 16×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 13×
• Sloans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 9×
• Norman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 8×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 8×
• Kidd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 8×
• Bundel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 8×
• Szorcsik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 7×
• Byron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 6×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 6×
• Everett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 6×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 75×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Shank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 63×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 57×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 49×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Wells v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 35×
• Woodall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-27· cited 32×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 30×
• Jayko v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 25×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 24×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 24×
• McCray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 23×
• Brinkley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 22×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 21×