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← 285 Ga. 458 - Pinckney v. State

Pinckney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Earnest v. State · State v. Vogleson · Byrd v. State · Peterson 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. “We note that the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment guaranteed] the defendant in a criminal trial. . . the right to cross-examine a key state’s witness concerning pending criminal charges against the witness. . . . “It is especially important in a case where a witness or an accomplice may have substantial reason to cooperate with the government that a defendant be permitted to search for an agreement between the government and the witness.” (Cit.) Whether or not such a deal existed is not crucial. (Cit.) What counts is whether the witness may be shading his testimony in an effort to please the prosecution. [Cits.]”
    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.