80 Ga. App. 641 - Colbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1992
8 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 Shafer v. State · 78 Ga. App. 558 - Owen v. State · Cone v. State · 73 Ga. App. 627 - Pierce v. State · Pierce 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The office of the videlicit is to particularize that which is general and explain that which is doubtful or obscure; but it must neither be contrary to nor increase or diminish the precedent matter. If what comes under it is repugnant to the precedent matter the videlicit must be related as surplusage.’ State v. Brown, 51 Conn. 1 . The material part of the indictment was as follows: the defendant did ‘possess and control and have in his possession, custody and control, spirituous, alcoholic and intoxicating liquors and distilled spirits, to wit [the videlicit] : wine, being 24 pints thereof in pint bottles, said wine not being domestic wine distilled and made by the said accused for the use of himself and his family.’ The effect of the videlicit was to restrict the charge to that of the possession of wine and the expression ‘spirituous, alcoholic and intoxicating liquors and distilled spirits, to wit wine’ is to be taken as meaning that the wine was of such a character as to fall within the meaning of either .‘spirituous, alcoholic, or intoxicating liquors, or distilled spirits.’ ” 56 S.E.2d at 835 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bishop
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.