129 Ga. App. 763 - Locklear v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1997
11 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 Berry v. State · Mitchum v. State · Georgia Power Co. v. Puckett · Augusta & Summerville Railroad v. Randall & Wife · 74 Ga. App. 777 - Smith 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is the province of counsel to comment upon facts in evidence, and to draw deductions therefrom in such manner as to present the case for the side he represents in its light most favorable to his case, and this right should not be unduly infringed, so long as counsel does not attempt to introduce into his argument facts not supported by evidence. [Cits.]’ ” Locklear v. Morgan, 129 Ga. App. 763, 765 ( 201 SE2d 163 ). Submitted March 3, 1980 Decided March 20, 1980 Rehearing denied April 3, 1980 Steven E. Scheer, for appellant. Kenneth S. McBurnett, Charles H. Brown, for appellee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that the [sheriff] disclaimed his signature on the warrant, would not make the [plea] inadmissible in evidence, but would go to impeach the validity of the disposition of the criminal charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny irregularity relative to the exhibit would go to [its weight] and not its admissibility,”
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.