146 Ga. App. 237 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Childs v. State (1987), Simpson v. State (2003)
93 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 Berger v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Bain Jr · United States v. Debrow · De Palma 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to charge that a crime may be committed by either of two methods, when the indictment charges it was committed by one specific method, and then charge the jury that they may convict the defendant if they find he committed the offense by a method other than the specific type charged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lumpkin v. State“whenever exigencies of proof exist as to whether an offense was committed in one of two methods proscribed by a statute, the prosecution may charge the accused in separate counts of a single indictment and let the jury select which method the evidence supports. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the indictment sets out the offense as done in a particular way, the proof must show it so, or there will be a variance.”
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.