George v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), Nichols v. State (1958)
2 federal appellate · 138 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 Anderson v. State · Parsons v. State · Parrish v. State · Ford v. State · People v. Sutton
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this State on the question of insanity vel non, witnesses, whether expert or non-expert, may express their opinion as to the sanity or insanity of defendant on trial for crime. (Citing cases.) # * * * * * “A non-expert witness * * * must base his opinion solely upon his own personal knowledge, observation, acquaintance, experience, etc., with the individual inquired of. (Citing cases.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nichols v. State““Written charges numbered 10,15,17 and 18 were properly refused to defendant for the reasons they were abstract and inapt. There is no evidence to support the theory upon which they were based.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Childress v. State
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.