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.

• noting that an illegal sentence may benefit a criminal defendant but that a judgment imposing a sentence that the law does not allow is still void and that the trial court may resentence the defendant at any time, citing Hartman v. State, 266 Ga. 613 (5) (469 SE2d 163) (1996
• “a direct appeal should lie from the denial of a motion attacking a sentence on the ground that it is void”
• a direct appeal lies from the denial of a motion attacking a sentence on the grounds that the sentence is void
• “[T]he denial of a petition to correct a sentence on the ground that the original sentence was void is appealable as a matter of right.”
• “[T]he denial of a petition to correct a sentence on the ground that the original sentence was void is appealable as a matter of right.”
• \[T]he denial of a petition to correct a sentence on the ground that the original sentence was void is appealable as a matter of right.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 680×
• von Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 454×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 429×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 192×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-29· cited 151×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• MATHERLEE v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 54×
• Demetrios v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 45×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-09· cited 32×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-16· cited 31×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-14· cited 28×
• Spargo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-29· cited 25×
• Shields v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 23×
• Hallford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 18×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 17×
• Bradberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-06· cited 14×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-09· cited 13×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-09· cited 12×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Crumbley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 138×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-20· cited 96×
• Sprouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-05· cited 52×
• Johnson v. Barnes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-08· cited 37×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-02· cited 27×
• Hartman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 25×
• Worley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 24×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-08· cited 20×
• Marshall v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-24· cited 15×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-08· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-05· cited 11×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-01-12· cited 11×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-03-19· cited 9×
• Bentley v. Willis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-10· cited 5×
• Penney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-01· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-05· cited 2×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-01· cited 1×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-11· cited 1×