199 Ga. App. 586 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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

1. “On the contrary, the trial judges retain wide latitude insofar as the Confrontation Clause is concerned to impose reasonable limits on such cross-examination based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness' safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 225 Ga. App. 687 - Farley v. State

2. “`general rule dispensing with the necessity for consistency as between the acquittals and guilty verdicts under a multicount indictment or information is not ordinarily applied where the jury returns multiple convictions as to crimes which are mutually exclusive of each other'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 999 So. 2d 992 - Ex Parte State

3. “[a]n essential element of the crime of theft by receiving is `that the goods had been stolen by some person other than the accused.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 999 So. 2d 992 - Ex Parte State