Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Georgia, the continuing witness objection is based on the notion that written testimony is heard by the jury when read from the witness stand just as oral testimony is heard when given from the witness stand. But, it is unfair and places undue emphasis on written testimony for the writing to go out with the jury to be read again during deliberations, while oral testimony is received but once. The types of documents that have been held subject to the rule include affidavits, depositions, written confessions, statements, and dying declarations.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 831 - JOHNSON v. the STATE. · ADAMS v. the STATE.

2. “generally contain their makers' assertions of purported truths, [and] are ascribed evidentiary value only to the extent that their makers are credible.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. ADAMS v. the STATE. · FRANKLIN v. the STATE.

3. “) (citations and punctuation omitted). In the present case, we need not decide whether the trial court violated the continuing witness rule in permitting the ALS Stipulation to go out with the jury, because even if it was error to do so, the error did not rise to the level of plain error. Given that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. ADAMS v. the STATE.