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← 287 Ga. 828 - Mills v. State

Mills v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
December 2024
most recently cited

47 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Chapel v. State · Davis v. State · Watson 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is relevant to a material fact and ... more probative on that material fact than other evidence that may be procured and offered,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A person shall not be found guilty of any crime committed by misfortune or accident where it satisfactorily appears there was no criminal scheme or undertaking, intention, or criminal negligence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “unlawfully and with malice aforethought, either express or implied, causes the death of another human being.”
    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.