202 Ga. App. 311 - Hurston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 207 Ga. App. 131 - Whipple v. State (1993), 232 Ga. App. 499 - Moody v. State (1998)
27 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 Harris v. State · 166 Ga. App. 817 - Castillo v. State · Cheatham v. State · 134 Ga. App. 329 - Williamson v. State · 183 Ga. App. 20 - Preston 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the offense of theft by receiving stolen property when he receives, disposes of, or retains stolen property which he knows or should know was stolen unless the property is received, disposed of, or retained with intent to restore it to the owner. “Receiving” means acquiring possession or control or lending on the security of the property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here the jury is authorized to find that the evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, the appellate court will not disturb that finding, unless the verdict of guilty is unsupportable as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“left . . . alone in the car with the vehicle running when [the driver] went into the convenience store”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jqw
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.