232 Ga. App. 732 - Tyson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
16 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 Smith v. State · Gilstrap v. State · 205 Ga. App. 473 - Strickland v. State · 221 Ga. App. 600 - Nichols v. State · 205 Ga. App. 882 - Starnes 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that because an act of sexual misconduct had occurred, and the perpetrator had pled guilty to sexual battery, there was no “reasonable probability” that the allegations were false. But this finding was clearly erroneous. The facts here do not show a reasonable probability of falsity but a certainty that false allegations were made, because the victim admitted that she fabricated part of what she said the other man did to her. Although the defendant should not have been allowed to question the victim about the one part of her accusation that she never recanted (i.e., that the other man put his hand in her bathing suit) the jury should have been allowed to hear evidence concerning the accusations that were false in order to allow the jury to assess the victim’s credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. French v. Carter“the trial court erred in excluding evidence that [his] victim had made prior false allegations of sexual molestation against another man. The transcript shows that the other man pled guilty to sexual battery after the victim reported that he put his hand inside her bathing suit bottom. However, the record also shows that the victim told authorities that the man molested her in other ways, and she admitted outside the presence of the jury that she “made a bunch of stuff up” and “lied or exaggerated about some things” involving the incident with the other man.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. French v. Carter
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.