Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Jones v. State (1988), Patterson v. State (1977)
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 Gregg v. State · Carrigan v. State · Britten v. State · Futch v. State · 131 Ga. App. 370 - Queen 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.
“[t]he granting or refusal to grant a mistrial has long been held to be largely in the discretion of the trial judge . . .” Woods v. State, 233 Ga. 495, 498 (II) ( 212 SE2d 322 ) (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fortson v. State“As felony murder is defined under Georgia law, the underlying felony is a lesser included offense of felony murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkinson v. State“[pjroof of the elements of the offense of felony murder necessarily requires proof of the elements of the felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Kelso
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.