Patterson 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 the State need not prove the defendant driver acted with a specific intent to place the victim in such apprehension when “evidence of [the defendant’s] intent to drive the vehicle as he did [was] undisputed”
• concluding that the crime of 6 simple assault under OCGA § 16-5-20 (a) (2) was not a specific intent crime because the statute did not contain any requirement that the defendant act with the specific intent to place the victim in reasonable apprehension of receiving a violent injury
• holding that the crime of simple assault as set forth in OCGA § 16-5-20 (a) (2) does not include plain language requiring proof of a specific intent, and noting that it was a matter for the General Assembly to phrase a statute to include such a specific intent requirement
• the crime of “assault” does not require proof of intent “to place the victim in reasonable apprehension of receiving a violent injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nalls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• NALLS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Ammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 23×
• United States v. Terin Moss
  Eleventh Circuit· 2019-04-04· cited 19×
• Smith v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-01· cited 9×
• United States v. Leon Carter
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-08-03· cited 9×
• State v. Richards
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1979-07-03· cited 8×
• Bonner v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-17· cited 6×
• State v. Wierson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 6×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-18· cited 5×
• Davis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-10· cited 4×
• Schmitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 3×
• United States v. John Barlow
  Ninth Circuit· 2023-10-04· cited 2×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-07· cited 1×
• In the Interest of T. P., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-10
• Dana Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Demetric Branch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-09-15
• Deras Deonta Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-29
• Cristina Cruz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-02

Cites

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

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Baggett v. Bullitt
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-01· cited 1,188×
• Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 1,104×
• Dietz v. Bouldin
  Supreme Court· 2016-06-09· cited 794×
• Simpson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 656×
• Ladner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-12-15· cited 631×
• Deal v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 498×
• Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1949-01-17· cited 422×
• Garza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 192×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-25· cited 135×
• Georgia Department of Natural Resources v. Center for a Sustainable Coast, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 133×
• Zaldivar v. Prickett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-06· cited 103×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Dunagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 91×
• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-14· cited 82×
• Etkind v. Suarez
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 73×
• Chan v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 73×
• Adsitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-09-29· cited 70×
• Tibbles v. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 70×