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← 285 Ga. App. 129 - Simmons v. State

285 Ga. App. 129 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 271 Ga. App. 528 - Shorter v. State · 262 Ga. App. 87 - Griffin v. State · 237 Ga. App. 595 - Anderson v. State · 281 Ga. App. 595 - Buice 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. “[t]hat some evidence offered by a witness seems contradictory to his own or to some other’s, or incomplete or uncertain, does not automatically discredit the evidence given by that witness, or others, for it is the function of the triers of fact to determine to what evidence it gives credence.”
    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.