Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Hayes v. State (1997), Walker v. State (2007)
26 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 · Muhammad v. State · Pruitt v. State · Britten v. State · Bowley 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for the trial court’s failure to give a requested instruction to constitute reversible error, the refused request must be “a correct statement of law that is pertinent and material to an issue in the case and not substantially covered by the charge actually given. [Cits.]” Pruitt v. State, 258 Ga. 583, 588 (13) ( 373 SE2d 192 ) (1988). The record in the instant case does not contain a copy of any timely filed request to instruct on “mere presence.” Accordingly, the requisite preliminary determination as to the legal accuracy of appellant’s refused request cannot be made. Compare Pruitt v. State, supra at 588 (13) (c). However, even assuming that the refused request was an accurate statement of the law, the trial court’s failure to have given it was not reversible error. The trial court’s charge, as actually given, was full and fair and substantially covered all the legal principles relevant to the determination of appellant’s guilt. Muhammad v. State, 243 Ga. 404, 405 (1) ( 254 SE2d 356 ) (1979). See also Bowley v. State, 261 Ga. 278, 279 (2) ( 404 SE2d 97 ) (1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. State“It is within the discretionary power of the court to allow a witness to be sworn after the evidence on both sides has been announced closed and the argument has been commenced. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton 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.