Spann v. Whitworth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
9 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 Hambrick v. State · Grimes v. Greer · Murphey v. Lowry
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only to persons who would not be confined but for the charges which give rise to the sentence for which credit is sought.' Spann v. Whitworth , 262 Ga. 21 , 23-24 (2), 413 S.E.2d 713 (1992). See also Tucker v. Stynchcombe , 239 Ga. 356 , 236 S.E.2d 623 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warbington 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.