264 Ga. App. 511 - Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burnett v. State · Green v. State · Larry v. State · Campbell & Jones v. Murray · 93 Ga. App. 375 - Wilson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if any of you had said that it is not your verdict that was published or it is not your verdict now, what I would have done would have been sent you back to the jury room and let you deliberate again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield v. State“[t]he earlier voiced reservations ... did not prevent the final verdict from being free and voluntary and unanimous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield v. State“cured any ambiguity that may have been caused by [her] negative response to the first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benefield 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.