192 Ga. App. 476 - Birts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2014
16 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 138 Ga. App. 266 - Clark v. State · Walker v. State · 158 Ga. App. 421 - Bennett v. State · 135 Ga. App. 620 - Parker v. State · 165 Ga. App. 86 - State v. Allen
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reflect that the defendant affirmatively sought to avoid trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant may waive his right to automatic discharge under OCGA § 17-7-170 by any affirmative action on his part or on the part of his counsel which results in a continuance of the case to a time outside the period of the demand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he State waited until the last available moment to schedule a trial demanded 2 1/2 months before, and piled it and several other cases upon the attorney in three days,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKnight 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.