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← 247 Ga. 635 - Devier v. State

Devier v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
October 2009
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Williams v. State (1983), Mullis v. Southern Co. Services, Inc. (1982)

3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “No law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ladson v. State · Mullis v. Southern Co. Services, Inc.
  2. “As held in Martin v. Broach, 6 Ga. 21 (2) (1849), `Where the title specifies some of the objects for which the Statute was passed, and contains this general clause — `And for other purposes therein contained,' portions of the Act not specially indicated in the title, are, nevertheless, good, under this general clause.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ladson v. State
  3. “[W]here the hearsay ... is [supplied by] an identified interested citizen[,] ... the credibility is not as suspect and the analysis is not as stringent [as where information is supplied by an anonymous tipster].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 229 Ga. App. 840 - Hinson 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.