State v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2025
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Kelly · Bishop v. State · White v. State · Stanbury v. State · Johnson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reversal is authorized if all four prongs of the standard adopted in [State v. Kelly, 290 Ga. 29 ( 718 SE2d 232 ) (2011)] are met: the instruction was erroneous, the error was obvious, the instruction likely affected the outcome of the proceedings, and the error seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“failure to instruct the jury that the State had the burden of disproving [defendant's] justification defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. STROUD v. the STATE.
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.