209 Ga. App. 859 - Jefferson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Rooney v. State (2010), Busch v. State (1999)
35 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Morris v. Slappy · Spivey v. State · Rivers v. State · Fleming 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any denial of due process .... Prohibited behavior is described in various criminal statutes, along with possible punishments. Notice that the specific punishment will be determined as a matter of discretion upon consideration of the facts and circumstances of each case is also provided via statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rooney 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.