228 Ga. App. 698 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2017
19 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 · 195 Ga. App. 463 - Grant v. State · Milam v. State · 166 Ga. App. 704 - Brooks v. State · 219 Ga. App. 329 - Woodward 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the evidence of record is legally sufficient to establish that, prior to his arrest, appellant had committed the offense of [possession of drug related objects] in the arresting officer’s presence in violation of [OCGA § 16-13-32.2]. Such [State law offense] would provide the officer with legitimate grounds lawfully to arrest appellant. OCGA § 17-4-20 (a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence; moreover, on appeal this court determines evidence sufficiency and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that [Lawrence] was guilty of [misdemeanor hit and run].”
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.