291 Ga. App. 642 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 278 Ga. App. 574 - Abernathy v. State · 286 Ga. App. 650 - Krirat v. State · 279 Ga. App. 859 - Nelson v. State · 287 Ga. App. 415 - Hutchinson v. State · 282 Ga. App. 261 - Clemmons 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As long as there is some competent evidence, even though contradicted, to support each fact necessary to make out the [s]tate's case, [an appellate court] must uphold the jury's verdict.”
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.