143 Ga. App. 302 - Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2000
13 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 Wisdom v. State · 122 Ga. App. 356 - Home Indemnity Company v. Godley · 111 Ga. App. 351 - Shelton v. State · McCartney v. McCartney · 122 Ga. App. 439 - Department of Public Safety v. Orr
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As held by this court in Baker v. State, 131 Ga.App. 48 , 205 S.E.2d 79 (1974), the terms of the agreement between the parties are decisive in determining whether the defendant has converted funds of another from a directed purpose to his own use. [[Image here]] ... It is the presence of a fraudulent intent “... that distinguishes theft by conversion from a simple breach of contract.” Jackson v. State, 137 Ga.App. 192 , 223 S.E.2d 239 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The presence of criminal intent is a factual issue for the jury's resolution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`create a reasonable doubt as to his lack of intent,'”
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.