170 Ga. App. 433 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably State v. Jackson (2010), 341 Pa. Super. 183 - Commonwealth v. Heck (1985)
31 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 Driggers v. State · Sprouse v. State · 138 Ga. App. 266 - Clark v. State · Cain v. State · State v. Crane
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term and concept of proximate cause [have] been applied in vehicular homicide cases in this state for many years. [Cits.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who, without malice aforethought, causes the death of another person through the violation of [various motor vehicle statutes] commits the offense of homicide by vehicle in the first degree....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson“Crane is clearly inapposite to the instant case where there is no evidence of indirect causation and which involves construction of an entirely different statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.