Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]e will affirm the judgment of a lower court so long as it is right for any reason, even if it is based upon erroneous reasoning.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Edvalson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 14×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 14×
• State v. Heath
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 13×
• McElrath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 3×
• Eleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 3×
• State v. Street
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2023-12-05· cited 2×
• Lewis Alan Carlton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Akeem Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Thomas Edvalson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-05-12
• David Anthony Carr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-03-07
• Jimmy L. Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-23
• David Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• Joshua Levi Bates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-08
• Matthew Scott Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-23
• The Augusta Press, Inc. v. Richard Roundtree, Sheriff of Richmond County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-05-23
• David Gaines Gilmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-02
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16
• Buchalla v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

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

• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1952-12-22· cited 657×
• Nazario v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 116×
• Shadix v. Carroll County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-22· cited 109×
• Stephens v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-07-06· cited 101×
• United States v. Smith
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-10-25· cited 93×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Brewner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 74×
• Keener v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-11-03· cited 47×
• Prater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-08· cited 42×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 40×
• State v. English
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-24· cited 39×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• State v. Wyatt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 32×
• Coates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 30×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 28×
• State v. Boyer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 27×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-15· cited 26×
• State v. Tiraboschi
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 26×