188 Ga. App. 129 - Whiteley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 206 Ga. App. 27 - Kirkland v. State (1992), 195 Ga. App. 493 - Rowe v. Rowe (1990)
35 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 Stanley v. State · 177 Ga. App. 36 - Bowers v. State · SHANNON COMPANY, INC. v. Heneveld · Fortson v. Fortson · State v. Hightower
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our role, as an intermediate appellate court, is limited to correcting lower court errors of law. Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. V, Par. III; Byrd [ v. State, 171 Ga. App. 344, 345 (3) ( 345 SE2d 117 ) (1984)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his court will not presume the trial court committed error where that fact does not affirmatively appear. The judge is presumed to know the law, not the opposite.”
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.