State v. Randle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “we must presume that the General Assembly meant what it said and said what it meant and so we must read the statutory text in its most natural and reasonable way, as an ordinary speaker of the English language would. The common and customary usages of the words are important, but so is their context. For context, we may look to other provisions of the same statute, the structure and history of the whole statute, and the other law that forms the legal background of the statutory provision in question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Riggs

2. “encompasses all intentional physical contact or only that which is shown to have caused some physical pain or injury. Randle II , supra at 376. Our Supreme Court affirmed our decision in Randle I , holding that the phrase”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 216 - STRICKLAND v. the STATE.

3. “intentional physical contact that causes actual physical damage, injury, or hurt to the victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 216 - STRICKLAND v. the STATE.