302 Ga. App. 289 - Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goldberg v. State · Butler v. State · 284 Ga. App. 472 - Patrick v. State · 294 Ga. App. 263 - Wester 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 who commits the offense of burglary in the first degree shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 20 years. Upon the second conviction for burglary in the first degree, the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than 20 years. Upon the third and all subsequent convictions for burglary in the first degree, the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five nor more than 25 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conviction in this case represented not only his third burglary conviction but also his [fourth] felony conviction, he fell squarely within the ambit of OCGA § 17-10-7 (c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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