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← 276 Ga. 139 - Seay v. State

Seay v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Camphor v. State · Martin v. State · Brown v. Bowers · Howe 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`the omission is clearly harmful and erroneous as a matter of law in that [the charge as given] fails to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining guilt or innocence.' [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]bsent a written request for a charge on a lesser included offense, made at or before the close of the evidence, the failure to so charge is not error”
    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.