157 Ga. App. 371 - Covington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 Ga. App. 315 - Bolden v. State · Sullivan v. State · 150 Ga. App. 642 - Robinson v. State · Davis v. State · 155 Ga. App. 587 - Miller 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A sentence is not unconstitutionally cruel and unusual if it is within the statutory limit.'”
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.