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← 272 Ga. 591 - West v. Waters

West v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
March 2007
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Potts v. State · McDuffie v. Jones · Brady v. State · Armstrong 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “OCGA § 17-10-2 requires “clear notice” to an accused of all previous convictions that the state intends to introduce at trial to allow a defendant to examine his record to determine if the convictions are in fact his, if he was represented by counsel, and any other defect which would render such documents inadmissible during the pre-sentencing phase of the trial.”
    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.