260 Ga. App. 96 - Viau v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An appellate court does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility. . . . Conflicting testimony is a matter of credibility for the finder of fact to resolve. As long as some competent evidence exists, even though contradicted, to support each fact necessary to make out the State’s case, we will uphold the factfinder’s verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 Ga. App. 23 - Dechant v. State

2. “The decision to exclude expert testimony lies within the trial court's sound discretion, and this court will not disturb it absent a clear abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 280 Ga. App. 821 - Pickle v. State

3. “[n]othing in the record demonstrates that the officer somehow misled [Licata] to believe that [he] was entitled to an attorney at the time of the breath test.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 Ga. App. 874 - The State v. Licata.