230 Ga. App. 426 - Shepherd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2020
10 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 · Jordan 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the offense of a terroristic threat when he threatens to commit any crime of violence . . . with the purpose of terrorizing another ... or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror. ... No person shall be convicted under this subsection on the uncorroborated testimony of the party to whom the threat is communicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The threat of physical violence directed against an absent third party is clearly within the conduct prohibited by the criminal statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kj
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.