237 Ga. App. 77 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2012
5 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 · 200 Ga. App. 822 - Beringause v. Fogleman Truck Lines, Inc. · 199 Ga. App. 667 - Wilburn v. State · Smith v. Lott · Conyers 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon all roadways of sufficient width, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except... [w]hen an obstruction exists making it necessary to drive to the left of the center of the highway, provided that any person so doing shall yield the right of way to all vehicles traveling in the proper direction upon the unobstructed portion of the highway within such a distance as to constitute an immediate hazard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] motor vehicle may be an obstruction when it is operated on a public road in a manner which could not be generally or reasonably anticipated, taking into account all of the circumstances and conditions present at such time and place, and thereby hinders or impedes the proper travel on such road.”
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.