127 Ga. App. 828 - Burns v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 1984
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. State · Gee v. State · Cole v. State · Hayes v. State · 73 Ga. App. 573 - Martin 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the same conduct of an accused may establish the commission of more than one crime, the accused may be prosecuted for each crime. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one crime if (1) one crime is included in the other,...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The possession of drugs... and the selling of the same drugs, are in law separate and distinct crimes and each is punishable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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