246 Ga. App. 448 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · Stephens v. State · 214 Ga. App. 77 - Johnson v. State · 208 Ga. App. 576 - Bohannon v. State · 232 Ga. App. 290 - Smith 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n cases of domestic violence, prior incidents of abuse against family members or sexual partners are more generally permitted because there is a logical connection between violent acts against two different persons with whom the accused had a similar emotional or intimate attachment.”
3 later decisions 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.