Connally v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Hudson v. Michigan (2006), Florida v. Tyvessel Tyvorus White (1999)
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 145 state decisions — followed in 28 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Stone v. Powell · Sedillo v. United States · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is, in other words, another situation where the defendant is subjected to what surely is judicial action by an officer of a court who has 'a direct, personal, substantial, pecuniary interest' in his conclusion to issue or to deny the warrant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fee for the issuance of a search warrant by a Georgia justice of the peace “shall be” $5, “and it shall be lawful for said [justice] of the peace to charge and collect the same.” If the requested warrant is refused, the justice of the peace collects no fee for reviewing and denying the application. The fee so charged apparently goes into county funds and from there to the issuing justice as compensation. [Id. at 246, 97 S.Ct. at 546-47 , 50 L.Ed.2d at 446 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every procedure which would offer a possible temptation to the average man as a judge to forget the burden of proof required to convict the defendant, or which might lead him not to hold the balance nice, clear and true between the state and the accused denies the latter due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.