83 Ga. App. 847 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Charlon v. State · Hamilton v. State · Pierce v. State · McLendon v. State · Solesbee 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.
“The thing done follows the nature of the thing intended to be done and the guilt or innocence of the slayer depends upon the same considerations which would have governed had the shot killed the person against whom it was directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster 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.