291 Ga. App. 805 - Bearden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 231 Ga. App. 528 - Paul v. State · 252 Ga. App. 268 - Jackson v. State · 277 Ga. App. 670 - Morgan v. State · 158 Ga. App. 722 - Hurt v. State · 253 Ga. App. 578 - Lewis 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person commits the offense of simple assault when he or she either: (1)[a]ttempts to commit a violent injury to the person of another; or (2)[c]ommits an act which places another in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dm“if the assailant has made such a demonstration of violence, coupled with an apparent ability to inflict injury so as to cause the person against whom it is directed reasonably to fear the injury unless he retreats to secure his safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dm
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.