Goldberg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Rodriquez (2008), Fair v. State (2010)
33 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 Vines v. State · Gee v. State · 222 Ga. App. 716 - City of Buchanan v. Pope · Mann v. State · Brown 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is a basic rule of construction that a statute or constitutional provision should be construed to make all its parts harmonize and to give a sensible and intelligent effect to each part, as it is not presumed that the legislature intended that any part would be without meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . [Ulpon a third conviction for the crime of burglary occurring after the first conviction, a person shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five nor more than 20 years. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onstruing the two provisions together, the General Assembly intended that a habitual burglar [who has no prior convictions for other felonies] be given the benefit of the trial court's sentencing discretion [under OCGA § 16-7-1 (b) ], but it further intended, that a habitual burglar who is also a habitual felon be subject to the imposition of the longest sentence prescribed for the subsequent offense for which he or she was convicted [under OCGA § 17-10-7 ]. 51”
2 later decisions 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.