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← 7 Ga. App. 605 - Sharp v. State

7 Ga. App. 605 - Sharp v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1910

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2002
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bell 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]here there is a specific statute covering the offense, and under which the defendant is [subject to a greater punishment], he should be indicted under that specific statute, rather than under the general section of the ... Code....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “there being a specific section covering his offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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