135 Ga. App. 203 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 141 Ga. App. 725 - Brooks v. State (1977), 139 Ga. App. 279 - Caldwell v. State (1976)
51 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 Hicks v. State · Bryant v. State · Emmett v. State · White v. State · Favors 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ithout the consent of the defendant, no witness shall be permitted to testify for the State whose name does not appear upon the list of witnesses as furnished to the defendant unless the... prosecuting attorney shall state in his place that the evidence sought to be presented is newly-discovered evidence which the State was not aware of at the time of its furnishing the defendant with a list of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In proving chain of custody, the state is not required to show that the substance was personally guarded each minute it is in one's custody, and in the absence of a showing to the contrary, the chain of custody is not thereby broken ... In the absence of evidence of tampering with the substance, the chain of custody has not been shown to be broken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of evidence of tampering with the substance, the chain of custody has not been shown to be broken.”
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.