225 Ga. App. 257 - Polk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2020
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 Batson v. Kentucky · 211 Ga. App. 256 - Rodriguez v. State · 206 Ga. App. 387 - Moody v. State · Peavy v. State · 212 Ga. App. 7 - Baugher 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not judged by hindsight or by the result. Although another lawyer may have conducted the defense in a different manner and taken another course of action, the fact that defendant and his present counsel disagree with the decisions made by trial counsel does not require a finding that defendant’s original representation was inadequate. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This [c]ourt has held that it obviously is not ineffective for counsel to fail to request a continuance for delay only.”
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.