191 Ga. App. 217 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2019
15 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 State v. Collett · 165 Ga. App. 150 - Brock v. State · 122 Ga. App. 478 - Falkenhainer v. State · 178 Ga. App. 247 - Cain v. State · 180 Ga. App. 510 - August 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal cases . . . in which the trial judge after imposing sentence further provides that the execution of the sentence shall be suspended, such provision shall not have the effect of placing the defendant on probation as provided in this article [about probation].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If counsel desires to preserve an objection upon a specific point, the objection must be on that specific ground. Otherwise, this court will not consider it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“OCGA § 42-8-39 specifically provides that suspended sentences shall not have the effect of placing the defendant on probation.”
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.