Southall v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• treating a premature motion for new trial as effectively filed upon entry of the trial court’s judgment does not prejudice the prevailing party
• overruling statutory-construction precedent that was two sentences long and contained no statutory construction
• collecting cases and stating that “[t]he word ‘within,’ when used with reference to time, is generally a word of limitation that means ‘not beyond’ or ‘not later than’—fixing the end, but not the beginning, of a period”
• “[W]ithout more, that we have been wrong for many years is no reason to persist in the error.”
• precedent about effect of prematurely filed motions for new trial involved only an issue of appellate procedure that did not implicate significant reliance interests
• “[A]n early motion for new trial or notice of appeal is . . . not legally cognizable before the judgment about which it complains is entered of record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

58 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×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 65×
• Seals v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-18· cited 62×
• Worthen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 55×
• Gilliam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 52×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-15· cited 45×
• WILLIAMS v. HARVEY
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 36×
• City of Cumming v. Flowers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 34×
• Pounds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 33×
• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 30×
• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 27×
• State v. Turnquest
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 25×
• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Ammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 23×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 23×
• Wasserman v. Franklin County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 23×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Wearry v. Cain
  Supreme Court· 2016-03-07· cited 201×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Gillen v. Bostick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-29· cited 77×
• Sosniak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 77×
• Kolokouris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 71×
• Titelman v. Stedman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-12-01· cited 54×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 49×
• State of Georgia v. International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 48×
• LEJEUNE v. McLAUGHLIN
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 47×
• McCulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 44×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Harrison v. Harrison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-11-09· cited 36×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-29· cited 32×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 32×
• Schofield v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-07· cited 30×

Other cases named Southall v. State

5 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Southall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-05
• Southall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-01
• Southall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-28
• Southall v. State
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-04-24
• Southall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-11-30