226 Ga. App. 861 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. ““In Gaskell , unlike this case, defense counsel specifically objected to the degree of force used in the demonstration; the witness said he based his presentation on a demonstration by a police officer whose knowledge was derived from a father in another case; the witness admitted he displayed a greater degree of force than that required to produce shaken baby syndrome; Gaskell had admitted shaking the child, though for.resuscitation purposes, making the issue of the amount of force actually used critical; and, the convic tion was not reversed solely on the demonstration, but also on two other errors in the trial of the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andrews v. State

2. ““Obviously, a demonstration of how shaken infant syndrome occurs would have to be done with a mannequin or a doll rather than a real infant. Such objects will differ in many respects from a real child. However, any dissimilarity between the conditions of the demonstration and the actual occurrence affects the weight rather than the admissibility of the evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Andrews v. State