177 Ga. App. 168 - Mullinnix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2020
13 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 · 151 Ga. App. 169 - Turner v. State · Mosley v. State · Cooper v. State · Kent 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The door knob hole was entered by the appellant with a device as surely as if he had stuck his hand in a "window with intent to steal, or hoisted his upper half in a window and was caught with his legs hanging out. Where as here a defendant “breaks the plane” of the structure by removing an alarm device with an instrument stuck in the door, with intent to steal, he has [entered] and the difference between him and [a] man who hoist[s] his upper half in a window to enter the house is a difference only in degree and not in kind. The evidence was sufficient to permit a reasonable trier of fact to rationally find proof of entry "with intent to commit a theft, beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“insertion of an instrument through a hole in the door and removal with the instrument or hand of an alarm string”
1 later decision 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.