126 Ga. App. 350 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2012
21 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 Harrison v. State · People v. . Gitlow · 2 Ga. App. 534 - Griffin v. State · 85 Ga. App. 252 - Johannesen v. Whiddon · Young 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhis expressive Yiddish word appears in modern English dictionaries as meaning ‘colossal effrontery’ or 'brazen gall' but as stated in The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been held that mere presence at the scene of a crime or where criminal acts are committed, even when coupled with flight, is insufficient to authorize conviction. Benjamin v. State, 16 Ga. App. 376 ( 85 SE 349 ); Burchfield v. State, 40 Ga. App. 506 ( 150 SE 459 ). “Neither presence, nor flight, nor both together without more, is conclusive of guilt.” Griffin v. State, 2 Ga. App. 534 ( 58 SE 781 ). Where there are only unexplained and suspicious circumstances, they are not sufficient to convict the defendant. Rodgers v. State, 213 Ga. 797, 803 ( 102 SE2d 10 ); Mach v. State, 109 Ga. App. 154, 161 ( 135 SE2d 467 ); Hodges v. State, 103 Ga. App. 284 ( 118 SE2d 858 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The classic definition of `chutzpah' is that quality enshrined in a man, who having killed his mother and father, throws himself upon the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.”
1 later decision 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.