143 Ga. App. 344 - Westley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1992
10 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 Jackson v. Denno · Bethay v. State · Johnson v. State · Shy v. State · Mitchell 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find no error. Under similar facts, the court in Jones v. State, 127 Ga. App. 137 ( 193 SE2d 38 ) (1972), held that the investigating officer’s question, 'Where do you stay?’, directed to the defendant, was a mere threshold inquiry, and a reasonable one. See also Boorstine v. State, 126 Ga. App. 90 (1) ( 190 SE2d 83 ) (1972). Similarly, in Shy v. State, 234 Ga. 816 ( 218 SE2d 599 ) (1975), wherein a defendant in custody was asked, prior to being given Miranda warnings, what had happened, he replied:'”
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.