172 Ga. App. 208 - McGee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2001
6 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 Wilson v. Zant · Dick v. State · Shirley v. State · 154 Ga. App. 261 - Griffin v. State · 165 Ga. App. 365 - Chancellor 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not reversible error to fail to charge in the exact language requested when the charge given adequately covers the correct legal principles." [Cit.] "It has long been held that under a proper interpretation of OCGA § 17-9-2, `it is the province of the court to construe the law applicable in the trial of a criminal case, and of the jury to apply the law so construed to the facts in evidence. While the impaneled jurors are made absolutely and exclusively judges of the facts in the case, they are, in this sense only, judges of the law.' The court is responsible for the correct exposition of the law and `in the trial of criminal cases it is the duty of the jury to take the law from the court, as it is their duty to take the evidence from the witnesses.'" [Cits] Inasmuch as the instruction given by the trial court was a `proper interpretation' of the statutory basis of appellant's requested charge, it was not error for the trial court to fail to charge the legal concept now at issue in the language requested by appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“It is not reversible error to fail to charge in the exact language requested when the charge given adequately covers the correct legal principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker 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.