227 Ga. App. 74 - Hightower v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Jackson v. Denno · Harris v. New York
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the absence of a prior statement ... fails to amount to a contradiction, there could be no impeachment under the provisions of OCGA § 24-9-83 .... [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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