191 Ga. App. 388 - Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2018
6 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 159 Ga. App. 497 - Johnson v. State · 145 Ga. App. 687 - Roberson 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain a conviction on circumstantial evidence only, the State must prove facts that are not only consistent with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused, but the facts proved must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis. Circumstantial evidence is worth nothing in a criminal case, if the circumstances are reasonably consistent with the hypothesis of innocence, as well as the hypothesis of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The essential ingredient of the offense is the intention to avoid payment. As is usual in cases of this type, there is no direct evidence that appellant obtained services by deception and with the intention of avoiding payment. The question then becomes whether the circumstantial evidence warranted the conviction.”
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.