310 Ga. App. 695 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Holmes v. State · Johnson v. State · Higginbotham v. State · Glover 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.
“One who is not the aggressor is not required to retreat before being justified in using such force as is necessary for personal defense or in using force that is likely to cause death or great bodily harm if one reasonably believes such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to oneself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffler v. 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.