216 Ga. App. 630 - Meeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2017
9 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 In re Williamson · Henderson v. State · 138 Ga. App. 640 - Frazier v. State · 210 Ga. App. 718 - Grace v. State · Morrill 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The single purpose for voir dire is the ascertainment of the impartiality of jurors, their ability to treat the cause on the merits with objectivity and freedom from bias and prior inclination. [Winfrey’s] proposed questions, however, sought not to ferret out bias or impartiality, but to find jurors amenable to the defense his lawyer would attempt to argue. 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Meeks's proposed questions ... sought not to ferret out bias or impartiality, but to find jurors amenable to the defense his lawyer would attempt to argue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[q]uestions seeking to test the prospective jurors' willingness to accept defenses have been disallowed and upheld on appeal”
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.