278 Ga. App. 634 - Howell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A statement made by a child under the age of 14 years describing any act of sexual contact . . . performed with or on the child by another ... is admissible in evidence by the testimony of the person or persons to whom made if the child is available to testify in the proceedings and the court finds that the circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 300 Ga. App. 193 - Conn v. State · Hatley v. State

2. “[t]he United States Supreme Court explicitly stated in Crawford that if a “declarant appears for cross-examination at trial, the Confrontation Clause places no constraints at all on the use of his prior testimonial statements. The Clause does not bar admission of a statement so long as the declarant is present at trial to defend or explain it.” (Citations omitted.) [Crawford, 541 U. S. at 59 (IV), n. 9.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Ga. App. 841 - Williams v. State

3. “Therefore, the evidence presented to the jury offered the choice between the completed crime or no crime. Accordingly, the trial court was not required to charge on the lesser offense[s].”

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