167 Ga. App. 816 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2008
20 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 Fair v. State · Davis v. State · McDuffie v. Jones · 160 Ga. App. 19 - Paxton v. State · State v. Nelms
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] claim of self-defense may raise the criminal defense of justification for an intentionally caused injury, [but] it does not vitiate the actual intent to cause injury. "The defenses of self-defense and justification do not deny the intent to inflict injury, but claim authority for the act under [a] legal excuse_” Accordingly, we hold that a claim of self-defense does not vitiate the element of intent so as to remove an act from the ambit of the exclusionary clause in the instant policy.”
2 later decisions 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.