Bundren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Felker v. State (1984), Adsitt v. State (1981)
59 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 Crosby v. State · 156 Ga. App. 411 - Johnson v. State · 155 Ga. App. 265 - Bundren v. State · 146 Ga. App. 721 - Murphy v. State · 153 Ga. App. 74 - Glover 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only difference between this crime and the offense of aggravated assault on a peace officer, under OCGA § 16-5-21 (c), is that knowledge of the fact that the victim was a police officer is an essential element of the latter crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not violate the mandate of [this constitutional provision]. It merely provides a mechanism by which that mandate can be carried out when the place in which the crime is committed cannot be determined with certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Napier v. State“the jury must be charged that knowledge is an essential element to the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.