120 Ga. App. 723 - Parham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Rivers v. State (1982), Smith v. Smith (1971)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Johnson v. Bennett · Harrison v. State · Bone v. State · Young v. State · Eugee 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]he range of the evidence in respect to time and place must be such as reasonably to exclude the possibility of presence. The onus is on the accused to verify the alleged alibi, not beyond reasonable doubt, but to the reasonable satisfaction of the jury. The charge of the court varied to some extent the language approved . . . as to the amount of proof required to establish the alibi. There is no question as to the correctness of the charge as to where the burden rested, — it was with the defendants. * * * Touching alibi, the rule in Georgia as established by authority consists of two branches. The first is that to overcome proof of guilt strong enough to exclude all reasonable doubt, the onus is on the accused to verify his alleged alibi, not beyond reasonable doubt, but to the reasonable satisfaction of the jury. The second is that, nevertheless, any evidence whatever of alibi is to be considered on the general case with the rest of the testimony, and, if a reasonable doubt of guilt be raised by the evidence as a whole, the doubt must be given in favor of innocence.” Thus it will be seen that the onus to establish the alibi is on the accused', that this is not to be established beyond a reasonable doubt, but to the reason able satisfaction of the jury. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Smith“alibi must be established to the reasonable satisfaction of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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