Riley v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), Rose v. Locke (1975)
23 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 Kelly v. Strouse & Bros. · Simmons v. Georgia Iron & Coal Co. · Herring v. State · Glustrom v. State · Bradford v. Mills
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.
“when a criminal statute fairly and reasonably is subject to two constructions, one which would render an act criminal, the other which would not, the statute must be construed strictly against the state and in favor of the accused.” Riley v. Garrett, 219 Ga. 345, 347 ( 133 SE2d 367 ). We do not agree that the phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. State“Sodomy is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order of nature, by man with man, or in the same unnatural manner with woman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowers v. Hardwick
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.