Thomas 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 a trial court retains broad discretion to reconsider and modify “interlocutory rulings before entry of final judgment”
• “While the law of the case doctrine is found in the Civil Practice Act, we have held that it applies in criminal cases, too.”
• “[i]n civil cases, the end-of-term rule has been explicitly curtailed by [OCGA § 9-11-6(c)].”
• “Subject to certain exceptions . . . we have said that the end-of-term rule limits a trial court’s inherent power to revoke interlocutory rulings in criminal cases to the end of the term in which the ruling was entered.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. TRIPP (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 6×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28
• Ronald Lynch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-30
• Susana Nesmith v. Amy Branch
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-01-14

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Carpenter v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2018-06-22· cited 1,201×
• Bronson v. Schulten
  Supreme Court· 1882-01-18· cited 340×
• John Simmons Co. v. Grier Brothers Co.
  Supreme Court· 1922-02-27· cited 248×
• United States v. Quartavious Davis
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-05-05· cited 133×
• Lathrop v. Deal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 111×
• First Nat. Bank of Cincinnati v. Flershem
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 89×
• Roulain v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 66×
• Slaton v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1929-05-15· cited 61×
• Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Co. v. Goshen Sweeper Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1896-03-05· cited 53×
• McCandless v. Conley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-04-01· cited 52×
• Coon v. Medical Center, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 38×
• United States v. Quartavious Davis
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-06-11· cited 37×
• Bradley v. Tattnall Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-04-09· cited 36×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 27×
• Dyson v. Southern Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-04-26· cited 27×
• Salisbury v. Grimes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-11-09· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 25×
• Ritter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 24×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-13· cited 21×