129 Ga. App. 103 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Carson v. State (1978), 130 Ga. App. 745 - Merrill v. State (1974)
40 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 Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Draper v. United States · Ker v. State of California
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After a verdict of guilty has been returned, in passing on the defendant’s motion for new trial the trial court and the appellate court are to afford the evidence that view which is most favorable to the state, for every presumption and every inference is in favor of the verdict. Morgan v. State, 77 Ga. App. 516, 517 ( 48 SE2d 681 ).” Williams v. State, 129 Ga. App. 103, 107 ( 198 SE2d 683 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * While the value of the drugs is not a necessary ingredient which the State must prove, it can be helpful to the jury in the light of other circumstances in the evidence to know whether the quantity of drugs was inconsequential or substantial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gooden v. State · Gordon v. State
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.