237 Ga. App. 143 - Pettus v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2015
22 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 228 Ga. App. 193 - Kapua v. State · 186 Ga. App. 578 - Coop v. State · 220 Ga. App. 524 - Perkins v. State · 223 Ga. App. 103 - Gibson 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The denial of a motion for new trial on these grounds addresses itself to the discretion of the trial judge. On appeal, this Court only reviews the evidence to determine if it is sufficient to support the verdict. This is a question of law, not discretion. The evidence must be construed in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the appellant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. To sustain the conviction, the evidence must be sufficient to authorize the jury’s finding of the defendant’s guilt of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State · Clark v. State“may consider oral testimony presented to a magistrate in support of the issuance of a warrant”
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.