Hester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 188 Ga. App. 357 - Shirley v. State (1988), 192 Ga. App. 173 - Westmoreland v. State (1989)
27 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 Jordan v. Caldwell · Pittman v. State · Allen v. Hopper · Blanton v. Jones · Morris v. Dunaway
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The proper and timely filing of the notice of appeal is an absolute requirement to confer jurisdiction upon the appellate court.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“within 30 days after the entry of the order granting, overruling, or otherwise finally disposing of the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.