144 Ga. App. 373 - Denham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 165 Ga. App. 814 - Stevens v. State (1983), 152 Ga. App. 792 - Farmer v. State (1979)
25 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 2 Ga. App. 534 - Griffin v. State · 130 Ga. App. 708 - Neal v. State · 138 Ga. App. 572 - Greeson v. State · State v. Greeson · 103 Ga. App. 284 - Hodges 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no direct evidence that he had any control (possession) or even knowledge (constructive possession) of [that] contraband.”
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.