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← 239 Ga. App. 245 - Clark v. State

239 Ga. App. 245 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · 227 Ga. App. 870 - Kovacs v. State · 218 Ga. App. 648 - Green v. State · 222 Ga. App. 333 - Binion 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] person commits the offense of forgery in the first degree when with intent to defraud he knowingly makes, alters, or possesses any writing in a fictitious name or in such manner that the writing as made or altered purports to have been made by another person, at another time, with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not give such authority and utters or delivers such writing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]n the absence of testimony to the contrary, counsel's actions are presumed strategic.”
    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.