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← 275 Ga. 288 - Lynn v. State

Lynn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
October 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Jones v. State · Jones v. State · Cooper v. State · Moye 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.

  1. “One way to encourage prosecutors to make sure they have proven venue and to alert the juries to their role in determining venue is to instruct juries that they must find venue beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, this Court strongly urges trial courts to begin giving an appropriate charge on venue tailored to the facts of the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[F]or at least the last one hundred years, this Court has reversed criminal convictions when the State failed to prove venue.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.