201 Ga. App. 309 - Whitener v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 Callaway v. State · McGhee v. State · 200 Ga. App. 585 - Hall v. State · 172 Ga. App. 524 - Waits v. State · 178 Ga. App. 875 - State v. Greene
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.
“'in the criminal context it simply is not relevant that the victim was negligent, unless the defendant's conduct did not substantially contribute to the cause of death.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'failure to wear a seat belt may arguably be a proximate cause of [his] death but was not an event that can sensibly be described as an intervening cause of [his] injuries'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mondor“that the victim's failure to wear a seatbelt should be considered in determining the 'cause' of death”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mondor
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.