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← 272 Ga. 492 - Hyman v. State

Hyman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 2010
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Georgia v. McCollum · Woodard v. State · Cuzzort 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A person also commits the offense of murder when, in the commission of a felony, he causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “If this result be viewed as a defect in our felony murder statute, the remedy lies with the legislature.”
    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.