201 Ga. App. 471 - Merka v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Timberlake v. State · 189 Ga. App. 483 - Martin v. State · 142 Ga. App. 341 - Van Scoik v. State · 146 Ga. App. 189 - Lee v. State · 187 Ga. App. 725 - Dorsey 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]otions for new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence are not favored and are addressed to the sole discretion of the trial judge, which will not be controlled unless abused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a new trial will not be granted if the only effect of the evidence will be to impeach the credit of a witness.”
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.