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← 273 Ga. App. 42 - Williams v. State

273 Ga. App. 42 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Allen v. United States · Hanifa v. State · Riley v. State · Bishop v. State · Tessmer 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. “If the resentencing is not legislatively authorized or the defendant has a reasonable expectation in the finality of his sentence, the ... court[s] may not increase the defendant's sentence once he has begun serving it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Absent these circumstances, the resentencing constitutes a double punishment that runs afoul of the Fifth Amendment prohibition against double jeopardy. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “final at the time that [they were approved by the Panel], and [Ms. Widner and similarly situated defendants] had no reason to believe that it was otherwise.”
    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.