245 Ga. App. 95 - Putnam v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A trial judge has acted within his sound discretion in rejecting possible alternatives and in granting a mistrial, if reasonable judges could differ about the proper disposition, even though ‘(i)n a strict, literal sense, the mistrial (is) not “necessary.”’ [Cit.] This great deference means that the availability of another alternative does not without more render a mistrial order an abuse of sound discretion. (Cits.) Deference to the judge’s sound discretion also precludes a reviewing court from assuming, in the absence of record evidence, that the trial judge deprived a defendant of constitutional rights. . . .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 262 Ga. App. 541 - Bentley v. State · Tubbs v. State

2. ““Both the defendant and the state are entitled to a fair trial designed to end in a just judgment. [Cit.]. . . . The trial court is vested with as much authority to grant a mistrial when an injustice occurs to the state as when it occurs to the defendant. [Cit.]” [Cit.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Tubbs v. State