Price v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the defense was raised by the evidence, including the defendant['s] own statements, the trial court would have been required to present the affirmative defense to the jury as part of the case in its charge, even absent a request. The affirmative defense, however, would not have to be specifically charged if the case as a whole had been fairly presented to the jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 349 Ga. App. 872 - OGLE v. the STATE. · 335 Ga. App. 557 - Franklin v. the State

2. “based on the idea that he was authorized to enter the house as an interested buyer, and because this authorization alone would have eliminated one of the essential elements of burglary ... [i.e.,] whether [the defendant] was authorized to enter the dwelling house in the first place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 349 Ga. App. 872 - OGLE v. the STATE.