State v. Ogilvie

How courts have described this case

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

• “Accordingly, a jury charge on the defense of accident to a strict liability traffic offense is available only where there is evidence, however slight, that the defendant did not voluntarily commit the prohibited act.”
• “Accordingly, a jury charge on the defense of accident to a strict liability traffic offense is available only where there is evidence, however slight, that the defendant did not voluntarily commit the prohibited act.”
• “unless the particular provision indicates otherwise, the traffic offenses defined in Chapter 6’s Rules of the Road are ‘strict liability’ offenses, meaning that they can be committed without a culpable mental state”
• in cases involving strict liability traffic offenses, the defense of accident “must be based... on evidence that the prohibited act was committed involuntarily, for example, because of an unforeseeable physical ailment or external force”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 26×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-30· cited 6×
• TITSHAW v. GEER
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-22· cited 6×
• Jackson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-09· cited 5×
• Platt v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 5×
• Ogletree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 4×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 4×
• Love v. McKnight
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 4×
• Roberts v. Unison Behavioral Health
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 3×
• McEntyre v. Sams East, Inc
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 3×
• Schmitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 3×
• Lakyia Sexton-Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Tracy Renee Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-04-21
• Gerald Randy White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-04
• Shalita Jackson Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Garrett Kyle Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• People v. Rostad
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-09-06· cited 63×
• Hoffer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-07· cited 28×
• Sapp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-07-03· cited 23×
• Queen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-04· cited 15×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-30· cited 14×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-21· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-12· cited 7×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-07· cited 6×
• Cornwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 6×
• Ogilvie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-09· cited 5×
• Goethe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-24· cited 4×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1921-05-11· cited 4×