173 Ga. App. 127 - Hubbard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when a defendant voluntarily takes the stand in his own behalf and testifies as to his guilt or innocence as to a particular offense, his waiver [of the right against self-incrimination] is not partial; having once cast aside the cloak of immunity, he may not resume it at will, whenever cross-examination may be inconvenient or embarrassing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKoy v. State

2. “'[W]hen a witness declines to answer on cross-examination certain pertinent questions relevant to a matter testified about by the witness on direct examination, all of the witness' testimony on the same subject matter should be stricken.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKoy v. State

3. “[g]iven the absence of any indication that the state's expert was incompetent or biased or that the chemical analysis performed by him might otherwise be unreliable”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 581 So. 2d 1144 - McLeod v. State