149 Ga. App. 194 - Shirley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2000
3 federal appellate · 9 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 New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Spencer v. State · Durham v. State · Osborne v. Osborne · Williams 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He does so in exactly the same way as the white man who sailed for Africa, captured the Negro, brought him to America in shackles, and then sold him as if he were an animal, created slavery, and slaves.' Ibid., p. 169. `Involuntary Mental Hospitalization,' Thomas Szasz.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“person, then incarcerates him in an institution, bars his escape from the institution and from the role of mental patient, and proceeds to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Psychiatrists advance the theory of pre-determined choice of the individual called `determinism.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.