Mann v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Johnson v. State (2002), Goldberg v. State (2007)
36 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 Jones v. State · Vines v. State · State v. Mills · Paras v. State · 240 Ga. App. 809 - Mann 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a specific statute will prevail over a general statute, absent any indication of a contrary legislative intent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“OCGA § 16-13-30 (d) provides that upon a second or subsequent conviction of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, the trial court has the discretion to impose a sentence of “not less than ten years nor more than 40 years or life imprisonment. The provisions of subsection (a) of Code Section 17-10-7 shall not apply to a sentence imposed for a second such offense; provided, however, that the remaining provisions of Code Section 17-10-7 shall apply for any subsequent offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merritt 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.