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.
“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 passagee.g. Neal v. State“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.