154 Ga. App. 543 - Chance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably 234 Ga. App. 556 - McKay v. State (1998), 202 Ga. App. 618 - Harris v. State (1992)
27 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 151 Ga. App. 199 - Perkins v. State · 97 Ga. App. 465 - Butts v. State · Jackson v. State · Lemon v. State · 146 Ga. App. 604 - Faulkner 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The evidence here shows that the appellant was peeping through the lighted window of another at night under compromising circumstances. This supports a finding that appellant's activity was for `the purpose of spying upon the privacy of the occupants of the residence, and this whether or not it be shown that any person was actually in any room into which [the appellant] looked, since, if the gravamen of this offense is spying for this unlawful purpose, and it be shown that the spying took place, and the purpose is inferable from the circumstances of the case, the guilt or innocence of [the appellant] does not in any sense hang upon a matter of chance as to whether the persons upon whom he sought to spy were actually in his view.' Butts v. State, 97 Ga.App. 465 , 103 S.E.2d 450, 451 (1958).... The prohibited act is `peeping' with the requisite wrongful purpose or intent. If the act and the intent are in concurrence, the crime is complete regardless of what or who may or may not be subject to the perpetrator's unlawful gaze."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prohibited act is looking into the residential structure with the requisite wrongful purpose or intent... regardless of what or who may or may not be subject to the perpetrator's unlawful gaze.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.