295 Ga. App. 711 - Driggers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the trial of any criminal case, when any person under the age of 16 is testifying concerning any sex offense, the court shall clear the courtroom of all persons except parties to the cause and their immediate families or guardians, attorneys and their secretaries, officers of the court, jurors, newspaper reporters or broadcasters, and court reporters.”

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

2. “Only a minimal amount of evidence is necessary to prove that an act of sodomy involving a child was done with force and against the child’s will, and such evidence can consist of “threats of death or physical bodily harm, or mental coercion, such as intimidation.” Brewer v. State, 271 Ga. 605, 607 ( 523 SE2d 18 ) (1999).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 307 Ga. App. 902 - Mitchell v. State

3. “[T]o succeed on his ineffective assistance claim, [Washington] was required to show that his trial counsel's failure to specially demur materially impacted his ability to present a defense, thereby creating a reasonable probability that counsel's deficiency changed the outcome of the case.”

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