State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Humphreys v. State (2010), Busch v. State (1999)
25 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 Knight v. State · 124 Ga. App. 190 - Inman v. State · Garrison v. Perkins · Witcher v. Pender · 182 Ga. App. 548 - Gunter 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a first-offender probationer is not 'discharged' pursuant to OCGA § 42-8-62, it is only because he did not successfully complete his term of probation, not because certification of that successful completion was not entered in the records of the trial court 'pursuant to Code Section 42-8-62.' "). We recognize that the prior version of the First Offender Act read as follows: "The court shall not sentence a defendant under the provisions of this article and, if sentenced under the provisions of this article, shall not discharge the defendant upon completion of the sentence unless the court has reviewed the defendant's criminal record as such is on file with the Georgia Crime Information Center.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By allowing [Hendrix] to complete his three-year probationary period without initiating any revocation proceedings against him, the State cannot urge that he did not fulfill the terms of his probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]othing in [the first offender statute] expressly provides that a 'discharge' from first-offender probation is not ... automatic, but must be formalized to become effective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.