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← 298 GA 451 - Finley v. State

Finley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Vergara v. State · Powell v. State · Dean 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “it must have been made voluntarily, without being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit or remotest fear of injury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a shorter sentence, lesser charges, or no charges at all.”
    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.