Todd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Solomon v. State (1980), Livingston v. State (1994)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Williams v. People of State of New York · Thompson v. State of Utah · Medley · Thompson v. State of Missouri
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.
“... since this is a question of first impression before this court, the judicial construction already placed upon a similar statute of another State in effect at the time of the adoption of the Georgia Act is considered to accompany it and is treated as incorporated therein. Seaboard A. L. R. Co. v. Fountain, 173 Ga. 593 (2a) ( 160 SE 789 ); Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc. v. Ga. Pub. Service Comm., 213 Ga. 418 ( 99 SE2d 225 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury shall hear additional evidence in extenuation, mitigation, and aggravation of punishment, including the record of any prior criminal convictions and pleas of guilty or pleas of nolo contendere of the defendant . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Livingston v. State
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.