131 Ga. App. 847 - Ballard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1998
9 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 Jarriel v. Jarriel · 12 Ga. App. 615 - Griffin v. State · 123 Ga. App. 311 - Stuart v. State · 75 Ga. App. 764 - Wright v. State · Rowland 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea of guilty may be withdrawn at any time before the sentence is pronounced... When is a sentence pronounced? Does the mere signing of the written judgment constitute the pronouncement of the sentence? No, there is one step further to be taken before pronouncement of the sentence is complete. The judgment must be in writing, it must be signed, and it must be filed ■with the clerk of court.” Ballard v. State, 131 Ga. App. 847 ( 207 SE2d 246 ); Code § 27-1404. 2. Section 1 of the Act providing for probation for first offenders (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 324, 325; Code Ann. § 27-2727) reads:”
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.