278 Ga. App. 198 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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

1. “The test for determining the sufficiency of an indictment or accusation is not whether the [accusation] could have been made more definite and certain or, for that matter, perfect, but whether it contains the elements of the offense intended to be charged, and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet, and in case any other proceedings are taken against him for a similar offense, whether the record shows with accuracy to what extent he may plead a former acquittal or conviction. Thus, if the accused can admit all the indictment or accusation or citation charges and still be innocent of having committed any offense, the indictment or accusation or citation is defective.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Ga. App. 490 - Newsome v. State · 289 Ga. App. 652 - Haynes-Turner v. State

2. “To succeed in his claim, [Fields] must overcome the strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the broad range of reasonable professional conduct. We will not reverse on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel unless trial counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial could not reliably have produced a just result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 281 Ga. App. 733 - Fields v. State

3. “a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which causes emotional distress by placing such person in reasonable fear for such person's safety or the safety of a member of his or her immediate family, by establishing a pattern of harassing and intimidating behavior, and which serves no legitimate purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 304 Ga. App. 819 - Bowen v. State