224 Ga. App. 666 - Rutledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 231 Ga. App. 329 - Reviere v. State (1998), 254 Ga. App. 648 - Middleton v. State (2002)
26 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Clarke v. Zant · 191 Ga. App. 623 - Allen v. State · 219 Ga. App. 239 - Edwards v. State · 202 Ga. App. 356 - Kirkland 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his determination depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of each case [and] a trial judge must investigate as long and as thoroughly as the circumstances of the case before [her] demand”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Thus, the trial transcript clearly indicates that defendant was not denied the right to counsel by the trial court, but instead knowingly, understandingly and voluntarily elected to represent himself .... Under the circumstances of this particular case, we find no error requiring a reversal of the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he evidence of the controlled substance in this case being packaged in a manner commonly associated with the sale or distribution of such contraband would authorize any rational trier of fact to infer that [Flemister] possessed [marijuana], a controlled substance, with intent to distribute.”
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.