227 Ga. App. 870 - Kovacs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 239 Ga. App. 524 - Inglett v. State (1999), 235 Ga. App. 170 - Barber v. State (1998)
51 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 · 192 Ga. App. 57 - Rawl v. State · 184 Ga. App. 374 - Sumner v. State · 223 Ga. App. 123 - McGhee v. State · 211 Ga. App. 636 - Schoicket 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to support the verdict, and [the defendant] no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence; moreover, an appellate court determines evidence sufficiency and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility. The jury’s verdict must be upheld if any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
29 later decisions 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.