155 Ga. App. 718 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2013
10 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 Johnson v. State · 131 Ga. App. 247 - State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Holton · 148 Ga. App. 89 - Bradham v. State · 147 Ga. App. 410 - Morrison 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true question is whether an abstractly correct charge not authorized by the evidence is calculated to confuse and mislead the jury.... [W]here it is obviously highly probable that the error, if existing, did not contribute to the verdict, a reversal will not result. [Cits.] Taking the charge as a whole we find no reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. State“was at most merely irrelevant, being one of a number of stated exceptions to the rule concerning the use of force in self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. 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.