236 Ga. App. 600 - Lynn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2015
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 198 Ga. App. 553 - State v. Freeman · 169 Ga. App. 444 - King v. State · 208 Ga. App. 777 - Wainwright v. State · 188 Ga. App. 447 - Darty v. State · 230 Ga. App. 219 - Fuller 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.
“OCGA § 17-7-70.1 (a) provide[s], inter alia, that in felony cases involving theft by shoplifting, in which defendants .. . have expressly waived a commitment hearing, the district attorney shall have authority to prefer accusations, and the defendant shall be tried on such accusations according to the same rules of substantive and procedural laws relating to defendants who have been indicted by a grand jury.”
1 later decision 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.