Seals v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• tracing statutory history of OCGA § 5-6- 34 (a) and collecting cases confirming that interpretation
• declaring a mistrial on one of multiple counts “meant the case was not final under [Georgia] precedent,” even where that count was placed on the trial court’s “dead docket”
• “[D]ead-docketing a count leaves that 5 in this Court did not vest.7 count undecided and, thus, leaves the entire case pending in the court below. Such a case cannot be appealed as a final judgment under OCGA § 5-6-34 (a) (1)[.]”
• a criminal case is not final and appealable until the trial court “enters a written judgment on each count of the indictment”
• a case is “no longer pending” when the trial court has resolved every count and left no issue remaining to be resolved
• “We do not have the power to ignore the meaning of words, nor do we have the power to rewrite statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

60 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×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 32×
• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Schoicket v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 29×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Ammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 23×
• Gonzales v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 20×
• Drennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 18×
• BUCKNER-WEBB v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 17×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-02· cited 11×
• State v. COOK (Six Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 11×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 11×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 10×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 8×
• City of Winder v. Barrow County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 8×
• Blash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Pingora Loan Servicing, LLC v. Cathy L. Scarver
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-04-07· cited 7×
• Crum v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 7×
• Oskouei v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Walmart Stores East, Lp v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-24· cited 927×
• Deal v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 498×
• Collins v. Miller
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-29· cited 263×
• Lewis v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-24· cited 177×
• Dingler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-08· cited 173×
• Tolbert v. Toole
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 171×
• Olevik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 150×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• Riley v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 2008-05-27· cited 102×
• Islamkhan v. Khan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 80×
• State v. Fielden
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 73×
• Southall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 68×
• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 65×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Loudermilk
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-07-11· cited 65×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 65×
• State v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 57×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Veasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 52×
• State v. Outen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 52×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 51×