147 Ga. App. 556 - State v. Cooperman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2021
17 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 Darden v. Ravan · Hargrove v. State · 145 Ga. App. 434 - State v. Stuckey · 133 Ga. App. 793 - State v. Warren · 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Civil Practice Act (OCGA § 9-11-41(b)) provides for dismissals with prejudice of civil cases, but the court knows of no statutory or case authority which permits such dismissals in criminal cases. (Emphasis in original.) State v. Cooperman, 147 Ga.App. 556, 558 (2), 249 S.E.2d 358 (1978). See also special concurrence in State v. Owens, [supra at 310 , 375 S.E.2d 656 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial judge has no authority to terminate the state's right to prosecute by erroneously attaching the label of `acquittal' to his ruling [regarding dismissal].”
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.