253 Ga. App. 373 - Pitts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 170 Ga. App. 433 - Johnson v. State · 236 Ga. App. 825 - Miller v. State · 250 Ga. App. 9 - Hill v. State · Benefield v. State · 205 Ga. App. 510 - Battles 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An injury or damage is proximately caused by an act or a failure to act whenever it appears from the evidence in the case that the act or omission played a substantial part in bringing about or actually causing the injury or damage and that the injury or damage was either a direct result or a reasonably probable consequence of the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order to be convicted of vehicular homicide by recklessly driving in violation of OCGA § 40-6-390, [the defendant's] conduct must have caused the death of [the victim].... `This requires showing that "the defendant's conduct was the `legal' or `proximate' cause, as well as the cause in fact, of the death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson“[I]n order to be convicted of vehicular homicide by recklessly driving in violation of OCGA § 40-6-390, [the defendant's] conduct must have caused the death of [the victim].... `This requires showing that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.