268 Ga. App. 855 - Amerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 201 Ga. App. 238 - Gregg v. State · 228 Ga. App. 193 - Kapua v. State · 250 Ga. App. 147 - Brown 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a child, who has reported child molestation to an adult permitted to testify to the out-of-court statement at trial, is incapable of reiterating the accusation at trial or is unresponsive or evasive during cross-examination, the jury must decide the child's credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“OCGA § 24-3-16 requires only that the child be available to testify; it does not require the child to corroborate the hearsay testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hilliard v. State
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.