207 Ga. App. 160 - Lemacks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2010
17 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 196 Ga. App. 145 - Martin v. State · Johnson v. State · 147 Ga. App. 617 - Parks v. State · 183 Ga. App. 68 - Worth 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prior [molestation] committed against the victim has nothing whatsoever to do with her past sexual behavior. It is no reflection on [the victim's] character that [she] has been an unwilling victim of prior crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The intent of the statute is to exclude evidence which might reflect on the character of the witness without contributing materially to the issue of the guilt or innocence of the accused. [Cits.]”
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.