284 Ga. App. 762 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Instead, he waited until the end of opening argument to [object]. And it is plain that a defendant must timely object to the alleged impropriety in opening argument so that the trial court can take remedial action, if any is warranted. Having failed to assert a contemporaneous objection, [Gomez] has waived his right to complain about the remarks on appeal.”

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

2. “after an issue is resolved in an appellate opinion, subsequent analysis on another theory amounts to an advisory opinion or mere dicta”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 304 Ga. App. 808 - Mussman v. State