233 Ga. App. 819 - Knight v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2015
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 195 Ga. App. 463 - Grant v. State · Brewton v. State · Caby v. State · Brewton 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] parent, guardian, or other person supervising the welfare of or having immediate charge or custody of a child under the age of 18 commits the [felony] offense of cruelty to children in the first degree when such person willfully deprives the child of necessary sustenance to the extent that the child’s health or well-being is jeopardized.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Sanders v. State“[t]he term `necessary sustenance,' as used in this Code section, has consistently been defined as that necessary food and drink which is sufficient to support life and maintain health.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coleman 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.