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← 286 Ga. 422 - Shivers v. State

Shivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Holmes v. State · Davis v. State · Ford 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A felony is inherently dangerous when it is dangerous per se or by its circumstances creates a foreseeable risk of death.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`the elements of the felony in the abstract, but instead . . . the circumstances under which the felony was committed.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “to determine whether the jury was fully and fairly instructed on the law of the case.”
    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.