Cates v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1997
14 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 Lewis v. State · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Saul · Boyd v. State · Etheridge v. Hobbs · Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad v. Joyner
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A request to charge should in itself be correct, and even perfect; otherwise the refusal to give it will not be cause for a new trial. Etheridge v. Hobbs, 77 Ga. 531 ( 3 SE 251 ).' Macon, Dublin &c. R. Co. v. Joyner, 129 Ga. 683 (5), 688 ( 59 SE 902 ). It must be legal, apt, and precisely adjusted to some principle involved in the case, and be authorized by the evidence. Lewis v. State, 196 Ga. 755 (3), 760 ( 27 SE2d 659 ); Downs v. Powell, 215 Ga. 62 ( 108 SE2d 715 ). A request to charge is not perfect in form when an inference is required to make it correct, and there is no error in refusing to give such a request. Norris v. State, 184 Ga. 397 (3) ( 191 SE 375 ). Unless a request to charge is itself a complete statement of the principle invoked, without requiring any addition to make it perfect, a failure to give it will not require a new trial. Head v. Bridges, 67 Ga. 227 (4).”
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.