150 Ga. App. 498 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2018
11 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 78 Ga. App. 153 - Loomis v. State · 133 Ga. App. 534 - Tischmak v. State · 95 Ga. App. 445 - Robertson v. State · 133 Ga. App. 310 - Harris 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he discretion of the trial judge in regulating conduct of counsel, parties, and the witnesses, and in prescribing the manner in which the business [of the court] shall be conducted, ... is broad and ... enable[s] [the judge] in any case to effect the purposes for which [the power] is inherently [vested in the judge]; but [the judge's power] is not unlimited, for it must not be abused and it may not be exercised in such a way as to involve a deprivation of a right." Loomis v. State , 78 Ga. App. 153 , 163, 51 S.E.2d 13 (1948).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CSEHY v. the STATE.“[t]he discretion of the trial judge in regulating conduct of counsel, parties, and the witnesses, and in prescribing the manner in which the business [of the court] shall be conducted, ... is broad and ... enable[s] [the judge] in any case to effect the purposes for which [the power] is inherently [vested in the judge]; but [the judge's power] is not unlimited, for it must not be abused and it may not be exercised in such a way as to involve a deprivation of a right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CSEHY v. the STATE.
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.