Buttram v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 1974
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 93 Ga. App. 48 - Felton v. State · Freeman v. State · 75 Ga. App. 581 - Johnson v. State · Heatley 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the crime charged in this bill of indictment intent is a material element. The law says that intent may be shown in many ways provided the jury believed that it existed from the facts proven before them. That it may be inferred from proven circumstances, or by acts and conduct, or it may be presumed when it is the natural and necessary consequence of an act.” (Emphasis supplied.) The Court of Appeals held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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