State v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Hicks v. State (1987), Carr v. State (1997)
26 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 Estelle v. Williams · Dunn v. State · 154 Ga. App. 835 - Hayslip v. State · 155 Ga. App. 667 - Whittington v. State · 169 Ga. App. 358 - Pike 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find that the clothing worn by the defendant did not exhibit any marking commonly associated with prison clothing so as to render the defendant’s trial unfair. If the defendant’s clothing . . . was recognized by any juror as being prison issue, due to the overwhelming evidence of guilt we find that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Congdon v. State“the trial court, either before or after the record is transmitted to the appellate court, on a proper suggestion [of either party] or of its own initiative, may direct that the omission or misstatement shall be certified and if necessary, that a supplemental record shall be certified and transmitted by the clerk of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an appellate court may, in its discretion [and on its own initiative], require that a record be supplemented ... even after rendition of its decision.”
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.