168 Ga. App. 751 - Freeman v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2007
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Timberlake v. State · Bell v. State · Johnson v. State · Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Co. v. Bagwell · Lakes v. Lakes
Most-quoted passages
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““The res gestae exception . . . dispenses with the presence of the declarant in court and with the administering of an oath, but it cannot properly dispense with the requirement that in some way, at least, and with some degree of persuasive force, it must appear that he was in reality a witness to the thing which he declared.” [Cit.] . . . Absent evidence showing that the declarant spoke from personal knowledge, the statement is reduced to a mere expression of an opinion or conclusion, which is inadmissible. [Cits.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“circumstances [may show] at least inferentially that the . . . declarant was present and that his declaration arose from personal observation”
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.