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← 252 Ga. App. 389 - Brooks v. State

252 Ga. App. 389 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 213 Ga. App. 444 - Harper v. State · 218 Ga. App. 329 - Dunn v. State · 237 Ga. App. 206 - Yawn v. State · 243 Ga. App. 216 - Sanders 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “On appeal, we apply the same standard in reviewing the denial of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal as we do in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, that is, whether, after considering the evidence in a light most favorable to support the jury’s verdict, a rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    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.