145 Ga. App. 720 - Spruell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1995
3 federal appellate · 4 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 131 Ga. App. 148 - Brown v. Hames
Most-quoted passages
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“A trial judge may, for a direct criminal contempt committed in the presence of the court, hold the offender in contempt without a hearing and impose punishment, acting on his own knowledge of the facts . . . Brown v. Hames, 131 Ga. App. 148 ( 205 SE2d 716 ) (1974).” Spruell v. State, supra. Appellant was representing a defendant in a criminal case and objected to the court’s jury charge on entrapment. Mr. Spruell:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“forth fully and clearly the facts found and conclusions of law upon which the order is based. [Cit.]”
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.