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← 259 Ga. 440 - Alexander v. State

Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2004
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Jolley 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We find . . . that a fair reading of the trial court’s charge clearly indicates that the court charged that [the defendant’s] defense of self-defense could apply to the underlying felony.”
    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.