263 Ga. App. 338 - Summers 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. “[i]f the several crimes arising from the same conduct are known to the proper prosecuting officer at the time of commencing the prosecution and are within the jurisdiction of a single court, they must be prosecuted in a single prosecution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 279 Ga. App. 306 - Delph v. State · 286 Ga. App. 133 - Barlowe v. State

2. “Although the . . . counts at issue arguably arose from the same type of conduct — and even from the same course of conduct, common scheme, pattern of behavior or modus operandi, the counts did not all arise from “the same conduct” in the sense of one specific transaction or unbroken sequence of events as used in OCGA§§ 16-1-7 (b) and 16-1-8 (b).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrison v. State

3. “A prosecution is barred if the accused was formerly prosecuted for a different crime or for the same crime based upon different facts, if such former prosecution . . . [Resulted in either a conviction or an acquittal and the subsequent prosecution ... is for a crime with which the accused should have been charged on the former prosecution. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 285 Ga. App. 792 - Thomas v. State