301 Ga. App. 355 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on California v. Trombetta · 246 Ga. App. 822 - Suarez v. Halbert · Walker v. State · Fincher v. State · 232 Ga. App. 672 - Milton 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.
“While we recognize the duty of the trial judge to control, in the furtherance of justice, the conduct of its officers and all other persons connected with a judicial proceeding before it, . . . the power to control the proceeding of the court is subject to the proviso that in so doing a judge does not take away or abridge any right of a party under the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fiorenzo“abuses its discretion when it interferes with the State's right to prosecute by dismissing an accusation without a legal basis to do so.”
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.