248 Ga. App. 7 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an appellant must show that (1) counsel’s performance was deficient and (2) the deficiency so prejudiced his defense that a reasonable possibility exists that the trial’s outcome would have been different but for that deficiency. We need not address both prongs of this test if the showing on one prong is insufficient, nor must we address them in any particular order.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 335 Ga. App. 481 - Houston v. the State

2. “An armed robber need not use an offensive weapon in a menacing or threatening manner to accomplish the robbery. . . . The element of “use” is present when the victim is aware of the weapon and it has the desired forceful effect of assisting to accomplish the robbery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 310 Ga. App. 710 - Tookes v. State