Wren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably 112 Ga. App. 684 - Young Men's Christian Assn. v. Bailey (1965), 137 Ga. App. 305 - Mills v. State (1976)
50 state decisions
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 21 Ga. App. 788 - Bell v. State · Burke v. State · Pennington 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the verdict, the testimony is construed in its most favorable light to the prevailing party, which in this case is the State, for every presumption and inference is in favor of the verdict.”
2 later decisions 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.