Philmore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably McClain v. State (1996), Crowe v. State (1995)
63 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 · Edge v. State · Whitaker v. State · 179 Ga. App. 556 - Callahan v. State · Witherspoon 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What message do you send out there to the drug dealers in this community when you let drug dealers go because of that? You tell them it’s a free pass . . . you tell them they can do their business without interference, without interruption, that they can do whatever they want as long as they do it in their place. Well . . . today it’s the Original K, tomorrow it could be the courthouse, the day after that it could be our schools. 24”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under these circumstances, the fact that the sentences were entered on the same day and that the sentences . . . ran concurrent... does not require the conclusion that the [two] prior convictions had been “consolidated for trial” within the meaning of OCGA § 17-10-7 (c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.