99 Ga. App. 278 - Chalker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1979
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 82 Ga. App. 521 - Fitzgerald v. State · Stonecypher v. Elliott · 68 Ga. App. 174 - Clark v. Morris Plan Bank · 68 Ga. App. 174 - Lipham 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a criminal case the burden is on the State to prove the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, and the burden never shifts to the defendant to prove his innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler 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.