Mims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Durham v. State (2012), Walsh v. State (1998)
52 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 Robinson v. State · 210 Ga. App. 99 - Johnson v. State · Stanley v. State · 209 Ga. App. 901 - Mims v. State · Steen 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In light of . . . [Robinson,] a trial court positively invites reversal of a criminal conviction when it fails to give the circumstantial evidence charge whenever such a charge is requested. . . . Virtually every case contains some circumstantial evidence and, if the charge is not given, stands in danger of being reversed for clearly harmful and erroneous error. The charge is a fundamental principle of law as to criminal guilt and there is no reason not to give it; the [s]tate is not harmed by it and has no right to have it omitted. 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“You would be authorized to convict only if the evidence proves the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt and the evidence excludes all reasonable theories of innocence. It is the state's burden to produce such evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Yarn v. State“a trial court is required to charge on the law of circumstantial evidence as set forth in ... OCGA § 24-14-6 only if the State's case against the defendant is wholly circumstantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wade 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.