Payne v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[n]o Georgia case holds that the difference in age of the victims is alone determinative of similarity. Our precedent consistently holds that it is the totality of the similar facts surrounding the crimes which are properly considered in a similar transaction analysis.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 298 Ga. App. 483 - Walley v. State · 303 Ga. App. 682 - Gresham v. State

2. “[t]he decision of a trial court to admit evidence of similar transactions will be upheld unless clearly erroneous.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 309 Ga. App. 196 - Philpot v. State · Hilliard v. State

3. “[t]o be admissible for the purposes of establishing motive, intent, course of conduct or bent of mind, the State must show (a) sufficient evidence that the similar transaction occurred and (b) sufficient connection or similarity between the similar transaction and the crime alleged so proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 309 Ga. App. 196 - Philpot v. State