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← 284 Ga. 24 - Terry v. Hamrick

Terry v. Hamrick’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jones v. Helms · State v. Collett · Humphrey v. Wilson · Massey v. Meadows · 182 Ga. App. 247 - Parrish 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The legislative, judicial, and executive powers shall forever remain separate and distinct; and no person discharging the duties of one shall at the same time exercise the functions of either of the others except as herein provided.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “to engraft onto every statutory change enacted by the General Assembly an interpretation that the legislature is thus making a pronouncement of constitutional magnitude.”
    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.