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← 106 Ga. App. 132 - Phelps v. State

106 Ga. App. 132 - Phelps v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 1974
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Howell v. State · 99 Ga. App. 265 - Jones v. State

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A crime is committed in the presence of an officer, if he sees it committed, or by the exercise of any of his senses he has knowledge, together with what he sees, that a crime is being committed by the person sought to be arrested.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.