258 Ga. App. 400 - Collins 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person commits the offense of forgery in the first degree when with intent to defraud he knowingly makes, alters, or possesses any writing in a fictitious name or in such manner that the writing as made or altered purports to have been made by another person, at another time, with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not give such authority and utters or delivers such writing. 2”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Russu v. State · 347 Ga. App. 731 - ALLEN v. the STATE.

2. “On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence must be construed in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the appellant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. An appellate court determines only the legal sufficiency of the evidence adduced below and does not weigh the evidence or assess the credibility of the witnesses.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 264 Ga. App. 636 - Griggs v. State · McMillian v. State

3. “[K]nowingly passing as genuine a forged instrument is conclusive of the intent to defraud.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 731 - ALLEN v. the STATE.