Beam v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Vogleson (2002), Watkins v. State (2003)
30 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 · Potts v. State · Hines v. State · Burgess v. State · State v. Alvarado
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to determine whether a trial court has improp erly expressed an opinion in its charge as to what has or has not been proved, the whole charge may be considered. (Cits.) OCGA § 17-8-57 is only violated when the court’s charge assumes certain things as facts and intimates to the jury what the judge believes the evidence to be. (Cits.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“[t]he state of a witness's feelings toward the parties and his relationship to them may always be proved for the consideration of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vogleson
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.