Georgia CommonsSupreme Court of Georgia
Court opinions
Opinions of the Supreme Court of Georgia filed from 2020-01-13 through 2026-10-14: 1,778 opinions. Each opinion has its full text and a plain-language summary. Browse by year and case type, or search by case name.
What this collection holds, and what it leaves out
- Opinions come from CourtListener and, for decisions it has not yet published, from the Supreme Court of Georgia's own website (62 opinions at present). When CourtListener publishes one of those decisions, its record replaces the court-sourced one and the old address redirects to it.
- The court's website index was last compared on 2026-10-15: every decision it listed through 2026-10-14 is here.
- Records whose text is shorter than 200 characters are not included.
- Each decision is counted once: where two records hold one decision (CourtListener's slip opinion and its Georgia Reports copy, or a court-website record and CourtListener's), the better copy is kept and the other record's id redirects to it (118 so far).
- The filing date is the decision date the court printed in the opinion for 63 opinions (every court-website record, and CourtListener records whose date disagreed with the caption); every other date is CourtListener's. For 1 court-website records whose PDF prints no date, the date is the day the court posted it.
- Spanish translations of the summaries exist for 1,777 of the 1,778 opinions with summaries (`lang=es`); the text of an opinion, and every quote from it, stays in English.
Dill v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Carlos Dill's murder conviction, rejecting his claims that the evidence only showed manslaughter, that a juror should have been removed, and that his lawyer was constitutionally ineffective.
Fadesire v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a DeKalb County man's murder conviction, ruling that his lawyer's decision not to object to two prosecutor remarks during closing argument was a reasonable trial strategy, not ineffective assistance.
Hernandez v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Gustavo Hernandez's murder conviction, rejecting his claim that his trial lawyer should have objected to several parts of the prosecutor's closing argument.
In the Matter of Charles Bruce Singleton, Jr
The Supreme Court of Georgia disbarred an attorney who abandoned three clients, failed to refund fees, and kept a minor's personal injury settlement money for himself despite multiple court orders to turn it over.
Jackson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's murder conviction, rejecting his claim that his trial lawyer's advice caused him to wrongly turn down a plea deal for manslaughter.
Jackson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Devon Jackson's murder conviction, ruling that the trial judge acted properly when she repeatedly removed him from the courtroom for disruptive outbursts and found he had forfeited his right to testify.
Patterson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Chatham County man's murder conviction, rejecting his arguments that the evidence pointed to another man in the house and that his trial lawyer was ineffective.
Rainey v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County woman's convictions for felony murder and home invasion, ruling the evidence showed she directed others to a specific bedroom she had no right to enter and that her voice was properly identified at trial.
Simms v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia vacated a Fulton County murder conviction ruling on a juror-citizenship claim because the trial court used the wrong legal test to decide whether the defendant had given up his right to raise the issue.
Williams v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's felony murder conviction, rejecting claims about a denied trial continuance, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective counsel, and a jury instruction he never identified.
CITY OF MILTON v. CHANG
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a separate road-defect statute does not itself waive a city's immunity from lawsuits, and that the City of Milton's duty to keep streets safe covers only the actual travel lanes, not the grassy shoulder where a concrete planter sat.
GINES v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the murder convictions of three men in the shooting death of Kadarius Medlock, rejecting claims about leg restraints, jury instructions, missing evidence, and ineffective lawyering.
In THE MATTER OF CANDACE LANETTE SNEED (Four Cases)
The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated Candace Lanette Sneed to practice law after finding she met the conditions the court had previously set for her return to the State Bar.
State v. Lee
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a trial court's ruling that a murder suspect's confession cannot be used against him at trial because police kept questioning him after he had refused to talk, but the court said the confession can still be used to challenge him if he testifies.
Gibson v. Head, Warden
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the denial of Exzavious Gibson's habeas corpus petition, ruling that even though his trial lawyer secretly worked as a part-time state attorney, Gibson did not prove the arrangement actually hurt his defense.
Hamilton v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Glynn County man's felony murder conviction, ruling that the trial judge properly handled a courtroom outburst and a detective's mention of the defendant's silence, and that any error in admitting prior-relationship evidence was harmless.
In the Matter of Joseph William Cloud
The Supreme Court of Georgia disbarred attorney Joseph William Cloud after he abandoned two clients, mishandled a $12,000 trust payment, and failed to respond to any part of the State Bar's disciplinary case against him.
In the Matter of Oksana Klymovych
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a disciplinary hearing officer wrongly refused to let a Ukrainian-American solo attorney reopen her default after she missed a filing deadline, and sent her case back for a decision on the merits.
Jackson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Quintavius Jackson's felony murder conviction in a DeKalb County gas station killing, but sent the case back because the trial court wrongly imposed a life-without-parole sentence on two felony murder counts instead of one.
Medina v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a DeKalb County man's convictions for felony murder and related crimes, rejecting his claims about confusing jury instructions and his lawyer's handling of a self-defense argument.
Filter and search
For machines, models, and agents
Every page here has a Markdown twin
Add .md to any address for the Markdown, /text for the verbatim text, or send Accept: text/markdown. Documentation: the JSON API, connecting an assistant, and the full URL grammar on /for-assistants.
- Map
The collection at routing depth, one line per unit, with links onward. Markdown.
- Search
Full-text search; add .md before the query for the Markdown twin, and &in=headings to search only headings.
- JSON API
Public read routes, no key: /meta for coverage, /search, /items?ids=, POST /verify.
- MCP
The MCP server, streamable HTTP, no key. Serves the Code and the two constitutions, bills, and opinions.
- About
Provenance, coverage, license, and the independence statement.