226 Ga. App. 478 - Hilliard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2022
19 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 Johnson v. State · Smith v. State · Allison v. State · 223 Ga. App. 772 - Strickland v. State · State v. Butler
Most-quoted passages
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“[A]n expert may not testify as to his opinion as to the existence vel non of a fact (in this case, whether the child had been abused sexually) unless the inference to be drawn from facts in evidence is beyond the ken of the jurorsthat is, unless the jurors, for want of specialized knowledge, skill, or experience, are incapable of drawingfrom facts in evidencesuch an inference for themselves. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“scientific or psychological matters the jury would need expert assistance to understand.”
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.