255 Ga. App. 194 - Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 230 Ga. App. 159 - Pollard v. State · Guess v. State · Happoldt v. State · Smith v. State · 239 Ga. App. 506 - Pace 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voluntary, spontaneous outbursts that are not made in response to any form of custodial questioning or interrogation are admissible at trial. [Cit.]... “There is no burden on State officials to prevent (a) defendant from talking about the incident if he wishes to do so. Simply stated they must not interrogate but they need not refuse to listen.” [Cit.] In these circumstances, we cannot say that the trial court erred in finding that [Tennyson’s] outburst[ ] [was] voluntary and spontaneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tennyson 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.