Smallwood v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “for a court to reach a facial challenge, a challenger must be able to successfully bring an as-applied challenge”
• addressing fair-warning and arbitrary-and-discriminatory-enforcement where the defendant raised arguments as to each
• “Vagueness invalidates criminal statutes that fail to provide clear warning to the average citizen of what conduct is criminally forbidden or fail to provide explicit standards for its enforcement to law enforcement officers.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• ROCKDALE COUNTY. v. U. S. ENTERPRISES, INC.; And Vice Versa
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 17×
• CL SNF, LLC v. FOUNTAIN
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 7×
• Sosebee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-13· cited 4×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 3×
• La Anyane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×
• State v. Newsom
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 2×
• Inquiry Concerning Judge Christina Peterson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-25· cited 1×
• Oluwole Olushola v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-23
• David Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-12-10
• Bryan Ivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-03-14
• Booze v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16
• Clayton Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-29

Cites

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

• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 5,137×
• United States v. Salerno
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 5,104×
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-03· cited 3,694×
• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Deal v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 498×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• United States Telecom Ass'n v. Federal Communications Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-06-14· cited 82×
• Rower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 72×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-25· cited 61×
• Gee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 57×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 44×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 43×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 38×
• Juan Melgoza Guerrero v. Matthew Whitaker, Acting Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-11-09· cited 36×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 32×
• United States v. Blair Cook
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-08-17· cited 31×
• State v. Nankervis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 28×
• Macon-Bibb County Hospital Authority v. National Treasury Employees Union
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-30· cited 28×
• Shedrick Henry v. M. Spearman
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-08-06· cited 27×