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← 222 Ga. App. 453 - Mitchell v. State

222 Ga. App. 453 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 212 Ga. App. 787 - Reid v. State · 207 Ga. App. 131 - Whipple v. State · 200 Ga. App. 519 - Jones v. State · 217 Ga. App. 580 - Allison 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In the absence of a charge to the jury as to the presumption of possession or its equivalent, it is not error to fail to charge on equal access where the charge as a whole substantially and adequately covers the principles contained in an equal access instruction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
    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.