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← 283 Ga. 131 - Walker v. Hale

Walker v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Malcolm v. State · 151 W. Va. 194 - State Ex Rel. Combs v. Boles · Ortiz v. State · 169 Ga. App. 444 - King v. State · 277 Ga. App. 670 - Morgan 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “King and its progeny stand for the limited proposition that the felony used to convict a defendant of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon [under OCGA § 16-11-131] cannot also be used to enhance the defendant's punishment as a repeat offender under OCGA § 17-10-7(a).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the same offense, if committed in this State, would constitute a serious violent felony”
    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.