142 Ga. App. 1 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 154 Ga. App. 312 - Moon v. State (1980), 152 Ga. App. 14 - McCormick v. State (1979)
29 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 Berger v. United States · De Palma v. State · McNeal v. State · Dobbs v. State · Campbell 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant contends that the trial court erred in overruling objections and motions for mistrial as to testimony concerning the defendant’s threats which were made in an attempt to prevent certain witnesses from testifying. There was no error in the judge’s rulings, however. Evidence of an act by an accused, intended to obstruct justice or avoid punishment for the crime for which he or she is on trial, is admissible if the act constitutes an admission by conduct.” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wills v. State
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.