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.
“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 passagee.g. State v. Butler“that a pediatrician is better qualified to assess the credibility of a child than the average lay person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Butler
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.