272 Ga. App. 287 - Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · 238 Ga. App. 511 - Curry v. State · 233 Ga. App. 794 - Newman v. State · 256 Ga. App. 741 - Wilson 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the verdict is unsupportable as a matter of law, it is for the jury to determine whether the circumstantial evidence is sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sufficient connection or similarity exists between the independent offense or act and the crime charged so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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