Odett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State's "interest in safeguarding the physical and psychological well-being of a minor is compelling and beyond the need for elaboration." [Cit.] As this Court noted in Powell, "many believe that acts of sodomy . . . are morally reprehensible." Powell [v. State, 270 Ga. 327 ,] 335 [(3), 510 S.E.2d 18 (1998)]. . . . [T]he General Assembly could reasonably conclude that the psychological well-being of minors is more damaged by acts of sodomy than by acts of intercourse, and that such acts warrant a greater punishment for child molestation by sodomy. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Humphrey v. Wilson

2. “there is no rational basis for treating child molestation based on an act of sodomy differently from child molestation based on other acts, and the different, treatment [for the act of sodomy] violates . . . equal protection and due process rights under the United States and Georgia Constitutions.”

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

3. “[r]esolving evidentiary conflicts and inconsistencies, and assessing witness credibility, are the province of the factfinder, not this Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 346 Ga. App. 351 - GARNER v. the STATE.