117 Ga. App. 149 - Coley v. THE STATE’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2010
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Robinson v. State · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Kontz · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Deas · Wells v. State · 73 Ga. App. 322 - Trippe 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To convict for the offense of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act, it is necessary, among other things, that the death be the proximate result of the unlawful act. Or, as it may otherwise be stated, the unlawful act must be found by the jury to be the proximate cause of the homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.