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← 279 Ga. App. 527 - Prater v. State

279 Ga. App. 527 - Prater v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 2008
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 234 Ga. App. 633 - Short v. State · 202 Ga. App. 440 - Patterson v. State · 166 Ga. App. 766 - Burns v. State · 201 Ga. App. 133 - Hall 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the burning of any building, vehicle, railroad car, watercraft, aircraft, or other structure (regardless of whether designed for use as a dwelling and regardless of who holds an interest in the structure) also constitutes arson in the first degree if done with the intent to prejudice the rights of a spouse [of the defendant] or co-owner [of the property] or if done under such circumstances that it is reasonably foreseeable that human life might be endangered. 7”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “OCGA § 16-7-60 (a) (1) and (2) define [arson in the first degree] as knowingly damaging (by fire or explosive) any dwelling house of another without his consent or any building, vehicle, railroad car, watercraft, or other structure of another without his consent, where that building, vehicle, railroad car, watercraft, or other structure is designed for use as a dwelling. 5”
    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.