172 Ga. App. 729 - Ferris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 186 Ga. App. 55 - Ould v. State (1988), 183 Ga. App. 24 - State v. Prestia (1987)
25 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 Hughes v. State · 162 Ga. App. 288 - State v. Adamczyk · Nelson v. State · Stripland v. State · 129 Ga. App. 65 - Underhill 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court has for some time been unduly liberal in its construction of what constitutes a valid demand for trial sufficient to invoke the sanctions of [OCGA § 17-7-170]. On several occasions, we have held that a demand for `trial by jury' is sufficient in and of itself to do so. [Cits.].... In order to discourage this type of draftsmanship, we hold that henceforth a demand for trial will not be considered sufficient to invoke the extreme sanction of [OCGA § 17-7-170] unless it is presented for what it is a demand to be tried within the next succeeding term of court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Any person against whom ... an accusation is filed . . . may enter a demand for trial at the court term at which the . . . accusation is filed. (b) If the person is not tried when the demand is made or at the next succeeding regular court term thereafter, provided at both court terms there were juries impaneled and qualified to try him, he shall be absolutely discharged and acquitted of the offense charged in the . . . accusation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[H]enceforth a demand for trial will not be considered sufficient to invoke the extreme sanction of ... [OCGA § 17-7-170] unless it is presented for what it is a demand to be tried within the next succeeding term of court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.