284 Ga. App. 619 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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. “Here, the trial court instructed the jury on the State’s burden of proving each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury’s burden to acquit if the State failed to meet this burden, the presumption of innocence, the jury’s duty to resolve the credibility of witnesses, and the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence. The charge as a whole therefore adequately explained the principles contained in charges on mere presence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 286 Ga. App. 650 - Krirat v. State

2. “Possession may be either actual or constructive. Constructive possession exists where a person though not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Ga. App. 312 - Prather v. State