Corn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Moses v. State (1980), Isaacs v. State (1989)
6 federal appellate · 82 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. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · Lego v. Twomey · Blackburn v. Alabama
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A hearing upon a special plea of insanity is a proceeding of a civil nature, in which the burden rests on defendant to produce evidence of his insanity.” Corn v. State, 240 Ga. 130, 139 ( 240 SE2d 694 ) (1977); May v. State, 146 Ga. App. 416 ( 246 SE2d 432 ) (1978). In Echols, supra, we held that a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“low mental level and social maladjustment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colwell v. State · King v. State“for the purpose of receiving money or any other thing of monetary value....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King 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.