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← 299 GA 652 - Dubose v. State

Dubose v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Kelly · Edge v. State · Gates v. State · Rowland 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Id. Here, notwithstanding Griggs's testimony that he obtained a gun to protect himself from the victim, there is no evidence at all that Griggs came into the unlawful possession of a firearm only”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “was independent of the provoked passion that was the basis for the finding of guilt as to voluntary manslaughter”
    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.