140 Ga. App. 643 - Pope v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1999
23 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 Gordon v. United States · 118 Ga. App. 617 - Brown v. State · Carnes v. State · 139 Ga. App. 643 - Jones v. State · Stanford 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Granting or refusing a continuance is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, and absent a clear showing of abuse, this court will not reverse for refusing to grant a continuance. [Cits.] “Mere shortness of time . . . does not ipso facto show a denial of the rights of an accused. Something more is required.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Livingston v. State“A voluntary statement by the witness stands on a different base than answers responsive to matters improperly elicited by the state’s attorney.” Pope v. State, 140 Ga. App. 643, 646 (3) ( 231 SE2d 549 ).”
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.