Bearden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2011
15 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 12 Ga. App. 615 - Griffin v. State · State ex rel. Conway v. Blake · Allyn v. State · Bateman v. State · State v. Richardson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for new trial can not be made upon a plea of guilty, for the reason (if for no other) that there is no verdict where there is a plea of guilty, and the only object of the motion for new trial is to set aside a verdict which has been rendered, so that upon another trial a different verdict may be obtained. The purpose of [a] motion for a new trial is to obtain another trial. Where a plea of guilty is filed the judgment does not rest upon the results of a trial, but upon the plea, which is nothing more than a confession in judicio. The verdict is the point of attack to which a motion for a new trial and everything it contains is directed. If there is no verdict a motion has no raison d’etre. 2”
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.