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← 266 Ga. 797 - Dumas v. State

Dumas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
3
states following
December 2023
most recently cited

62 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Jackson v. State (2003), Kolokouris v. State (1999)

62 state decisions

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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 · Milam v. State · Thomas v. State · 199 Ga. App. 586 - Thomas v. State · Smashum 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]here there are mutually exclusive convictions, it is insufficient for an appellate court merely to set aside the lesser verdict, because to do so is to speculate about what the jury might have done if properly instructed, and to usurp the functions of both the jury and the trial court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Martinez v. State · Flores v. State
  2. “the principle that it is not generally within the trial court's power to make inquiries into the jury's deliberations, or to speculate about the reasons for any inconsistency between guilty and not guilty verdicts. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Turner v. State
  3. “The Milam ruling stands for the proposition that a defendant cannot attack as inconsistent a jury verdict of guilty on one count and not guilty on a different count. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Turner 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.