307 Ga. App. 232 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
June 2015
most recently cited
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wright v. West · Bagwell v. State · 302 Ga. App. 128 - Smith v. State · Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Lybrend · 293 Ga. App. 674 - Farris 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the record contains some competent evidence to prove each element of the crime of which the defendant was convicted, even though that evidence may be contradicted, we must uphold the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is the function of the jury, not this Court, to resolve conflicts in the testimony, weigh the evidence, and draw reasonable inferences from the evidence.”
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.