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← 257 GA 617 - Westberry v. State

Westberry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Baker v. State · Murphy v. Balkcom · Wyatt 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]here the record shows that a criminal defendant voluntarily elects to forego a timely appeal following conviction, it is not error to deny his subsequent motion for an out-of-time appeal.”
    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.