Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[sjtandard practice in Georgia has long required a party to make and obtain a ruling on an objection to evidence in the trial court, before or as the evidence is admitted, in order to preserve the objection for appeal, and standard practice also allows parties to raise on appeal only the same objections that were properly preserved below.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Higuera-Hernandez v. State · 310 Ga. App. 859 - Luckie v. State

2. “Evidence that a defendant has committed an independent offense or bad act is admissible if the State shows and the trial court rules that there is a “ ‘sufficient connection or similarity between the independent offenses or acts and the crime charged so [that] proof of the former tends to prove the latter.’ ” [Cit.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Phillips v. State · Thomas v. State