145 Ga. App. 36 - Golden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
February 1986
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Dorrough · Byrd v. Ricketts · Gentry v. State · Yates v. Brown · Madden 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dismissal of such an appeal is justified on the theory that the escaped prisoner should not be allowed to reap the benefit of a decision in his favor when the state could not enforce a decision in its favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. Morris
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.