Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
2
states following
April 2023
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Drake v. State · Phagan v. State · Chase v. State · 223 Ga. App. 772 - Strickland v. State · State v. Collins
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the erroneous jury instruction here effectively relieved the State of its burden to prove an essential element of the crime of [aggravated] sexual battery, the instruction cannot be said to have been harmless. Accordingly, [Duncan’s] convictions for [aggravated] sexualbattery must be reversed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough the charge was a correct statement of the law at the time it was given, following the trial, the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the crime of sexual battery requires actual proof of the victim's lack of consent, regardless of the victim's age.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]nsofar as the jury instruction suggested that an underage victim is not capable of consenting to the contact constituting sexual battery, the instruction was misleading and thus erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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