130 Ga. App. 154 - Holcomb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Stevens v. State (1978), Baker v. State (1980)
39 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 Henderson v. State · Pressley v. State · Golatt v. State · Boyd v. State · Bryan 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Motions for mistrial are largely in the discretion of the trial judge, especially where the cause of the motion lies in the voluntary remark of a witness not invited by the court or counsel, and, where the jury is properly instructed and the remark is not so flagrantly prejudicial as to violate the fair trial rights of the defendant, the court’s discretion will not be overturned.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Justifiable homicide is a substantive and affirmative defense; and where such defense is in issue and the court does not specifically, or in general terms, inform the jury that, if they should believe the defendant justified, it would be their duty to acquit him, a new trial must be granted.’... [cases cited].” Holcomb v. State, 130 Ga. App. 154,157 (6), supra. This requirement could have been met previously merely by charging the provisions of former Code § 26-1017, i.e.,”
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.