Witt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1996
14 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 Boyd v. State · Waller v. State · Fountain v. State · Spencer v. State · 128 Ga. App. 645 - Witt 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.
“under the charge as a whole the jury must fully have understood that, if it found the defendant justified, it could not return a guilty verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lavender v. State“specifically, or in general terms, inform the jury that, if they should believe the defendant justified, it would be their duty to acquit him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lavender 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.