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← 178 Ga. App. 110 - Butler v. State

178 Ga. App. 110 - Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2000
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Smith v. State · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Saul · Williams v. State · Fordham 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.

  1. “I think most people who have a lot of training in child development or child psychology understand that children of a certain age who are old enough to know truth from a lie can't lie about anything they don't really have an experience about.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “that a pediatrician is better qualified to assess the credibility of a child than the average lay person.”
    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.