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.

• holding that a claim of failure to merge a conviction under OCGA § 16-1-7 is a challenge to a defendant’s conviction and not a valid void-sentence claim
• concluding that “[appellant’s] claim of failure to merge ... is a challenge to his criminal conviction and a motion to correct illegal sentence or conviction is not an appropriate remedy to attack a conviction in a criminal case”
• explaining that a merger claim “is a specific attack on the conviction”
• dismissing an appeal from an order denying the defendant’s motion to correct his illegal conviction, because such 10 a motion is not an appropriate remedy in a criminal case
• including among examples of challenges to void sentences a challenge to recidivist treatment
• an accused may not be convicted of more than one crime if one crime is included in the other

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• von Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 454×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Nazario v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 116×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 79×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 70×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 54×
• Linson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 53×
• Lay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-16· cited 53×
• Paradise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 50×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 43×
• Sentinel Offender Services, LLC v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-24· cited 23×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 19×
• Dos Santos v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 18×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 18×
• State v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-22· cited 13×
• Munye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-08-01· cited 13×
• Parrott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 13×
• HOOD v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-19· cited 12×
• Beamon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 12×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 680×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 106×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-09-20· cited 96×
• Rooney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 80×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-15· cited 66×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-11-22· cited 26×
• Worley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 24×
• Hutchins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 10×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 9×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-21· cited 6×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 1×