Pitts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a defendant is on probation when he is sentenced to other forms of confinement that do not involve incarceration
• sentence of incarceration “denotes a continuous period of confinement in a jail or penitentiary uninterrupted by periods of freedom”
• sentence of incarceration \denotes a continuous period of confinement in a jail or penitentiary uninterrupted by periods of freedom\
• “ ‘(C)onditions of probation may be imposed for punitive purposes, such as by restricting a person’s liberties short of total incarceration. . . .’ [Cit.]” (Emphasis supplied.)
• “A defendant sentenced to serve a continuous and uninterrupted period of confinement in a jail or penitentiary is ‘incarcerated.’ A defendant sentenced to undergo other forms of confinement is on ‘probation.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moody v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-07· cited 38×
• Ballenger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-21· cited 28×
• Bussey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-04· cited 18×
• Penaherrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-30· cited 17×
• Tuttle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-12-01· cited 16×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 15×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-16· cited 11×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-04· cited 10×
• Hollie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 10×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-02· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-23· cited 7×
• Glover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-19· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-12· cited 7×
• Harp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-11· cited 6×
• Johanson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-11· cited 5×
• Radford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-23· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-16· cited 5×
• Kaylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-16· cited 4×
• Hillis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-26· cited 1×
• In Re White
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-06· cited 1×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Collett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-04· cited 65×
• Castillo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-19· cited 62×
• Inman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-07-08· cited 61×
• Cross v. Huff
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 50×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 46×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-01-10· cited 22×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-04· cited 19×
• In Re Prisoners Awaiting Transfer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-03-16· cited 17×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-09· cited 17×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-01-13· cited 15×
• Spencer v. Whyte
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 14×
• Parkerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-11-13· cited 13×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-04· cited 13×
• Sherman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-06-29· cited 12×
• Blitch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-06· cited 12×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-17· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-03· cited 9×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1914-05-16· cited 8×
• McNeil v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-02-19· cited 5×