Riley 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 the crime-unknown “tolling period ends when the State has actual, as opposed to constructive, knowledge of … the crime.”
• statute of limitation is tolled “until the State possesses sufficient evidence to authorize the lawful arrest of that person for the crime charged”
• “this Court may construe statutes to avoid absurd results”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• SOUTHERN STATES CHEMICAL, INC. v. TAMPA TANK AND WELDING, INC
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 20×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 16×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 11×
• Garrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 11×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 6×
• MOORE v. WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-12· cited 3×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 1×
• State v. Marion Franklin Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16
• Aaron Santoro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• State v. Rhonda Dee McClendon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-20
• Jeffery Dewayne Herrington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-08
• Ryan Alexander Duke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-27
• Angelia Countryman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-18
• Kecia Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-09-22
• Antonio Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-25
• Misty Michelle Garrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-07-20
• Durwin Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-12
• Ryan Alexander Duke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-12

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Toussie v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-02· cited 806×
• Deal v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 498×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Hall v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-06-02· cited 129×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Tanner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-03-09· cited 58×
• Allen v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 48×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 32×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-22· cited 25×
• Womack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-03-13· cited 23×
• Higgenbottom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 23×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 23×
• Beasley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-07· cited 20×
• Firsanov v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 17×
• Inagawa v. Fayette County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 14×