Hodges v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2016
8 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 Doyal v. State · Jackson v. State · Lascelles v. State · McLane v. State · 2 Ga. App. 689 - Cohen 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.
“[I]n order to prevent an indictment or accusation which shows on its face that it was returned more than two years after the commission of a known . . . offense from being barred by the statute of limitations because returned within six months after the nolle prosequi of a former indictment returned within time, the second indictment or accusation must show [on its face] that the former was not nol prossed because of a fatal defect therein, or because it was void, but that such nol pros was for an “informality” or some other good reason which did not render it void. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. the 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.