235 Ga. App. 577 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2015
17 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Roviaro v. United States · Albrecht v. United States · Williams v. State · Bacon 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he test of admissibility of evidence of other criminal acts by the defendant is not the number of similarities between the two incidents. Rather, such evidence may be admitted if it is substantially relevant for some purpose other than to show a probability that the defendant committed the crime on trial because he is a man of criminal character. Drug cases are no different from any other cases. If the defendant is proven to be the perpetrator of another drug crime and the facts of that crime are sufficiently similar or connected to the facts of the crime charged, the separate crime will be admissible to prove identity, motive, plan, scheme, bent of mind, or course of conduct."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To render evidence of another crime admissible, two conditions must be satisfied. First, there must be evidence that the defendant was in fact the perpetrator of the independent crime. Second, there must be sufficient similarity or connection between the independent crime and the offense charged, that proof of the former tends to prove the latter. [Additionally, the court is required] to find that the evidence will be introduced for an appropriate purpose and not to raise an improper inference as to the accused’s character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. State“It is clear in this case that based upon defendant's denial of the commission of the subject crime (possession of crack cocaine), a past conviction involving the sale of crack cocaine would be most helpful to the jury, and therefore the State's need would have outweighed the prejudice to the defendant.”
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.