292 Ga. App. 673 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which causes emotional distress by placing such person in reasonable fear for such person’s safety ... by establishing a pattern of harassing and intimidating behavior, and which serves no legitimate purpose. This Code section shall not be construed to require that an overt threat of death or bodily injury has been made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 322 Ga. App. 383 - Gates v. State

2. “The frequency and nature of [the defendant's] contact and surveillance was such that the trial court could conclude that it was done for the purpose of harassing and intimidating [the plaintiff].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 346 Ga. App. 305 - Little v. Booker.