Pecina v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the odor of alcohol, open beer cans, the driver’s physical manifestation of intoxication, and the driver’s failure to maintain lane constituted sufficient evidence to convict of DUI
• explaining “seriously disfiguring his body language contained in the serious injury by vehicle statute and further specifying evidence sufficient to support conviction thereunder
• affirming DUI less safe conviction where evidence showed a strong odor coming from driver’s breath, he admitted that he had been drinking, he had urinated on himself, and he almost fell down when he exitedhis vehicle
• affirming DUI less safe conviction where evidence showed a strong odor coming from driver’s breath, he admitted that he had been drinking, he had urinated on himself, and he almost fell down when he exited his vehicle
• evidence of extent of injuries sufficed to sustain defendant’s conviction for serious injury by vehicle
• “[E]ven though language used by the appellate courts in a decision may embody sound law, it is not always appropriate to employ such language in instructing the jury.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hewitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 35×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 34×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-27· cited 28×
• Slayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-22· cited 26×
• Jaffray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-14· cited 22×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-07· cited 19×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 17×
• Jarriel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-09· cited 16×
• Stadnisky v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-08· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-13· cited 16×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-06· cited 15×
• McClain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-05· cited 12×
• Wade v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-02· cited 9×
• Shockley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-07· cited 9×
• Clyde v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-16· cited 8×
• Dotson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-17· cited 6×
• Hannah v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-30· cited 4×
• Silvers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-04-07· cited 4×
• Mueller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-30· cited 4×
• KARAFIAT v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-04· cited 4×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-09· cited 67×
• Stull v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-01-04· cited 64×
• Clay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-01· cited 40×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-08· cited 34×
• McGee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 33×
• Duggan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-07· cited 32×
• State v. Boyer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 27×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-03· cited 24×
• McDade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-15· cited 19×
• Harmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-28· cited 14×
• Stone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-15· cited 13×
• Hollis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-25· cited 8×
• In the Interest of C. P. M.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-05· cited 6×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-15· cited 5×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-18· cited 3×