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294 Ga. App. 293 - Sermons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 186 Ga. App. 836 - Prothro v. State · 261 Ga. App. 576 - Wilson v. State · 286 Ga. App. 859 - Griffith v. State · 217 Ga. App. 681 - Pruitt v. State

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

  1. “A person commits the offense of burglary when, without authority and with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein, he enters or remains within the dwelling house of another.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The fact that [T.C.] may have failed in accomplishing his apparent purpose does not render the finding of burglary improper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.