Malcolm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 918 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 923 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Wright v. State (2012), Hanifa v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 918 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · Renner v. State · Hurt v. State · Montes 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 923 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vacated by operation of OCGA § 16-1-7. Thus, there is no felony murder count into which the underlying felony can merge, since the felony murder conviction has been statutorily vacated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hayes v. State · Gresham v. State“The nature of the two offenses and the circumstances surrounding their commission were sufficiently similar, and indeed interconnected, such that the relevance of the other [offense] to show appellant’s [modus operandi, course of conduct, intent], scheme, motive, bent of mind and identity in the present case outweighed any prejudice. [Cits.] “(T)he evidence was not overly prejudicial here, as the jury was [given detailed limiting instructions. . .].” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State“alleged is the shooting of Nava and Sloley), two counts of armed robbery (for taking cash from both victims), possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Perkinson filed a plea in bar claiming that double jeopardy barred the DeKalb County prosecution because Bartow County had”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkinson 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.