253 Ga. App. 440 - Harrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial court has broad discretion in sentencing to impose conditions reasonably related to the nature and circumstances of the offense and the rehabilitative goals of probation. 3 . . . But such conditions must be stated with “reasonable specificity” to afford the probationer notice of the groups and places he must avoid. And the conditions must not be so broadly worded as to encompass groups and places not rationally related to the purpose of the sentencing objective.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 282 Ga. App. 109 - Grovenstein v. State · Tyler v. State

2. “[i]f a warrantless search has occurred pursuant to a special condition of probation, a reviewing court [must] analyze the facts and circumstances to determine whether the search in question was based upon reasonable grounds, balancing the government’s need to search against the invasion caused by the warrantless search.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 292 Ga. App. 445 - Brooks v. State · 337 Ga. App. 875 - The State v. Rucker

3. “A trial court has broad discretion in sentencing to impose conditions reasonably related to the nature and circumstances of the offense and the rehabilitative goals of probation. ... But such conditions must be stated with reasonable specificity to afford the probationer notice of the groups [,] places [and activities] he must avoid.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 344 Ga. App. 58 - Jeremy Ryan Hilley v. State