273 Ga. App. 235 - Polite v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2020
21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Wallace v. State · 261 Ga. App. 793 - Williams v. State · 257 Ga. App. 480 - Gaston 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To authorize a jury instruction on a subject, there need only be produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lowery v. State · Lynn v. State“Where overwhelming evidence of a defendant’s guilt exists apart from the statement of the co-defendant, then any violation of Bruton is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. ... [In this case, any] incriminating information contained in [Elamin’s] statement was merely cumulative of properly admitted testimony. Consequently, even assuming that [Elamin’s] statement was erroneously admitted, [Simpson] cannot show that he was harmed by its admission.”
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.