222 Ga. App. 591 - Farmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2011
10 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 184 Ga. App. 374 - Sumner v. State · State v. Orr · 189 Ga. App. 900 - Arnold v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“A review of the record in this case leaves little doubt that . . . [Keller] was . . . aware of his license suspension. But here, as in every criminal prosecution, the State must prove every element of its case beyond a reasonable doubt. We are constrained to agree with [Keller] that the evidence presented in this case falls short of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that at the time of the [arrest Keller] had received either actual or legal notice that his license had been suspended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the offense of driving with a suspended license, the State must show that the accused was driving, that his license was suspended, and that the accused had received actual or legal notice of the suspension. [Sledge contends] the State failed to prove he received actual or legal notice that his license was suspended, which is an essential element of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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