236 Ga. App. 548 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 240 Ga. App. 774 - Green v. State (1999), 240 Ga. App. 592 - Threatt v. State (1999)
25 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 Williams v. State · 145 Ga. App. 231 - Radowick v. State · Price v. State · 225 Ga. App. 792 - Pickens v. State · 206 Ga. App. 27 - Kirkland 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it is the simple act of driving . . . while under the influence that establishes the commission of (the crime).” [Kirkland v. State, 206 Ga. App. 27, 28 (3) ( 424 SE2d 638 ) (1992).] “Evidence of a prior DUI offense, regardless of the circumstances surrounding its commission, is logically connected with a pending DUI charge as it is relevant to establish that the defendant has the bent of mind to get behind the wheel of a vehicle when it is less safe for him to do so.” (Citations omitted.) Smith v. State, 236 Ga. App. 548, 552 (3) ( 512 SE2d 19 ) (1999) , rev’d on other grounds, 272 Ga. 83 ( 526 SE2d 59 ) (2000).”
2 later decisions 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.