259 Ga. App. 452 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 2014
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Rowland v. State · Mann v. State · 233 Ga. App. 794 - Newman v. State · 242 Ga. App. 256 - MacK 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the maximum penalty is life in prison, a trial court lacks discretion to probate or suspend any part of the sentence. It follows that when a three-time recidivist commits a fourth felony for which the maximum penalty is life in prison, the trial court lacks discretion to sentence such felon to anything other than a life sentence without possibility of parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCorkle v. State
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