222 Ga. App. 587 - Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2010
12 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 201 Ga. App. 238 - Gregg v. State · 192 Ga. App. 528 - Horne v. State · Barnes v. State · 201 Ga. App. 775 - Greer 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Child molestation and enticement do not merge as a matter of law, since each has an element not necessary to prove the other (the actual commission of an immoral or indecent act for child molestation; asportation for enticement). Williams v. State, 156 Ga. App. 481 (1) ( 274 SE2d 826 ) (1980); see also Kirby v. State, 187 Ga. App. 88 (2) ( 369 SE2d 274 ) (1988). And they need not merge as a matter of fact, since they generally occur sequentially (i.e., the enticement offense is completed before the child molestation occurs), such that it is not necessary to prove one by using the same or less than all the facts used to prove the other. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f an offense as charged in the indictment includes the commission of another charged offense, the latter offense is necessarily included in the former as a matter of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. State“Under Georgia law, offenses merge and multiple punishment is prohibited if one offense is included in the other as a matter of law or fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. State
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.