Walker 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. “[a]bsent a written request, a trial court is required to charge on the law of circumstantial evidence as set forth in ... OCGA § 24-14-6 only if the State's case against the defendant is wholly circumstantial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 508 - LEE v. the STATE. · Gadson v. State

2. ““[wjhether an appellant is asking this court to review a [trial] court’s refusal to grant a new trial [on the general grounds] or its refusal to grant a motion for directed verdict, this court can only review the case under the standard espoused in Jackson v. Virginia, [supra], to determine if the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, supports the verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. State

3. “[t]o warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 508 - LEE v. the STATE.