267 Ga. App. 520 - Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · 251 Ga. App. 248 - Wilbanks v. State · 213 Ga. App. 857 - McBride v. State · 259 Ga. App. 74 - Wright v. State · Lyons 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a presumption arises when a defendant is sentenced within the statutory limits set by the legislature that such sentence does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. Such presumption remains until a defendant sets forth a factual predicate showing that such legislatively authorized punishment was so overly severe or excessive in proportion to the offense as to shock the conscience. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“motion to dismiss the State's brief as untimely and to hold the State in contempt is ... denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mays 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.