247 Ga. App. 157 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The key question in determining whether offenses have merged is whether the different offenses are proven with the same set of facts. “For example, if one crime is complete before the other takes place, the two crimes do not merge. However, if the same facts are used to prove the different offenses, the different crimes merge.” [Cit.]”

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

2. “Even if the trial court erred by failing to make specific findings on the record that each of the elements enunciated in Williams for admission of the evidence was satisfied, no harmful error occurred because . . . the evidence was sufficient for the trial court to have concluded that the Williams[ ] requirements were satisfied. 7”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 266 Ga. App. 345 - Collier v. State