Witcher v. Pender’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Matthews v. State (1997), Walker v. State (2014)
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ford v. State · 175 Ga. App. 112 - Hightower v. General Motors Corp. · Hightower v. General Motors Corp. · 185 Ga. App. 519 - Hardman v. Hardman · 194 Ga. App. 72 - Pender v. Witcher
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“completely exonerate[s] the defendant of any criminal purpose and shall not affect any of his civil rights or liberties; and the defendant shall not be considered to have a criminal conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews 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.