Stephens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• district attorney has discretion to seek life sentence for second drug offense
• district attorney has discretion to seek life sentence for second drug offense
• “it is certainly clear that this court may interpret the equal protection clause of our state constitution as affording greater rights to our citizens than does the federal equal protection clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 73×
• Toomer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 64×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 47×
• State v. Wooten
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 42×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-03· cited 40×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 39×
• Cody v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-08-12· cited 23×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 21×
• Hammonds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-08-31· cited 11×
• In Re Application for Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by Ross
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-01-27· cited 9×
• Cantrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-06-05· cited 6×
• Skidmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-28· cited 3×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-02· cited 2×
• Dennard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-16· cited 1×
• Holcomb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-08

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-11· cited 4,496×
• Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1886-05-10· cited 3,789×
• Washington v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 3,450×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• People v. Wheeler
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-25· cited 1,612×
• Strauder v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1880-03-18· cited 1,327×
• Gomillion v. Lightfoot
  Supreme Court· 1960-11-14· cited 1,079×
• Whitus v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 696×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-12-13· cited 143×
• Fleming v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-01· cited 141×
• Grissom v. Gleason
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 90×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-12-03· cited 86×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-27· cited 84×
• Ambles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-11· cited 75×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 74×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-12-05· cited 66×
• State v. Hendrixson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-05· cited 46×