137 Ga. App. 419 - Strickland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1997
16 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 State v. Stonaker · Bacon v. State · Henderson v. State · State v. Luke · Johnson 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, upon a sudden quarrel, the parties agree to a fight, or fetch their weapons and fight, and one of them is killed, such killing is voluntary manslaughter, no matter who strikes the first blow... A mutual intention to fight need not be proved directly, but may be inferred by the jury from the conduct of the parties.” (Emphasis supplied.) Strickland v. State, 137 Ga. App. 419, 420 ( 224 SE2d 87 ) (1976). 5. Appellant further claims that the trial court committed reversible error by charging the jury on the legal concept of specific intent as follows:”
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.