Drane v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Turner v. State (1996), Waldrip v. State (1997)
44 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Chambers v. Mississippi · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Green v. Georgia
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits conspiracy “when he together with one or more persons conspires to commit any crime and any one or more of such persons does any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy.” OCGA § 16-4-8. The essence of conspiracy under OCGA § 16-4-8 is an agreement, and that agreement . . . may be a mere tacit understanding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Photographs relevant to the location of the body and the nature and location of wounds are admissible where alterations to the body are due to the combined forces of the murderer and the elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wayne v. State“[p]ost-mortem mutilation of a body may show depravity of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wood
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.