Sauerwein v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “See, e.g., Johnson v. State, 30 Ga. 426, 431 (5) (1860) (not error to state a fact that is undisputed by the defense); McCloud v. State, 166 Ga. 436, 444 ( 143 SE 558 ) (1928) (“[w]hile the judge is forbidden to express an opinion as to whether any particular fact has been proved, yet, when the evidence to establish a fact is undisputed, and the fact is admitted by the accused on his trial, it is not error for the judge to [state that fact] to the jury”); Thomas v. State, 27 Ga. App. 38, 40 (3) ( 107 SE 418 ) (1921) (the statute “which prohibits a trial judge from expressing or intimating his opinion as to what has or has not been proved ‘refers to the expression or intimation of an opinion touching some fact at issue in the case, and not to something that is conceded by both parties’ ”); McKee v. State, 275 Ga. App. 646, 650 ( 621 SE2d 611 ) (2005) (trial court’s comment on undisputed fact was not a violation of the statute).”

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