State v. Hanson

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing broad discretion of prosecutors in deciding when to bring charges
• prosecutors have exercised the power to decide which defendants to prosecute from the beginning of our criminal justice system
• prosecutors have exercised the power to decide which defendants to prosecute from the beginning of our criminal justice system
• fact that agreement not to prosecute was ultra vires should not cause it to fail entirely
• “[f|rom the beginning of our criminal justice system prosecutors have exercised the power of prosecutorial discretion in deciding which defendants to prosecute”
• “Where the defendant relinquishes valuable constitutional rights in exchange for immunity, the question of enforcement of the bargain has constitutional overtones.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-13· cited 50×
• State v. Wooten
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 42×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 30×
• State v. Hanson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-06-16· cited 23×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-16· cited 23×
• Sparks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 23×
• Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-06-15· cited 22×
• Scanlon v. State Bar of Ga.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-06· cited 18×
• State v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 16×
• Lord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 16×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 14×
• State v. Barrett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-17· cited 14×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-09· cited 13×
• Glover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-06· cited 12×
• Redding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-08· cited 11×
• LUMPKIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 10×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 9×
• Golden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-17· cited 9×
• Syms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18· cited 9×
• Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-10-05· cited 8×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Kastigar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 2,510×
• Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 1,503×
• Counselman v. Hitchcock
  Supreme Court· 1892-01-11· cited 1,118×
• United States v. Ford
  Supreme Court· 1879-04-18· cited 135×
• State v. Ashby
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1964-10-05· cited 36×
• Higdon v. Heard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1853-08-15· cited 16×
• State v. Ashby
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1963-11-29· cited 12×
• Corson v. Hames
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 10×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-03-02· cited 9×
• Hanson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-01-20· cited 2×
• Hanson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-02-17· cited 2×