161 Ga. App. 85 - Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2004
16 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Gober v. State · Tribble v. State · Barnes v. State · Cannon 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we must reverse that portion of appellant's sentence which imposes restitution as a condition of [probation] and remand the case to the trial court with direction that a hearing on the issue of restitution be held at which Code Ann. § 27-3009 [now OCGA § 17-14-9] and the factors in Code Ann. § 27-3010 [now OCGA § 17-14-10] are to be considered and we further direct that the written finding required by Code Ann. § 27-3008 [now OCGA § 17-14-8] be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“[A] sentence imposing restitution in the absence of such a hearing wherein such factors as are enumerated in Code Ann. § 27-3010 [now OCGA § 17-14-10] are considered by the trial court cannot stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.