Hunter v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
14 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 Williams v. Illinois · Tate v. Short · Morris v. Schoonfield · Calhoun v. Couch · Barnett v. Hopper
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not think that a defendant should be able to mislead the court as to ability to pay a fine, thus inducing an alternate sentence, and later seek to rely upon constitutional safeguards to avoid punishment.”Hunter v. Dean, 240 Ga. 214,220 ( 239 SE2d 791 ) (1977). There was evidence that Fong was able to pay other bills and he continued to operate his business and pay business expenses. Only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may not constitutionally imprison beyond the maximum duration fixed by statute a defendant who is financially unable to pay [that] fine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any valid penal objective by [a] state statute ... that convert[s] a fine into a term of imprisonment for failure to pay the fine[,]”
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.