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← 287 GAAPP 601 - Hayles v. State

Hayles v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2012
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · Suggs v. State · 270 Ga. App. 522 - Reese 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where an instruction closely tracks the language of OCGA § 16-3-21[ (a) and (b) ], as the charge in this case does, giving that instruction is not harmful, even when the exceptions described by subsection (b) do not apply. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Counsel could not have been ineffective for failing to make a meritless objection.”
    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.