298 Ga. App. 545 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he issue before [the appellate court] is whether the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction under the standards of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). Therefore, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the [trial court’s judgment], and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence. We do not weigh the evidence [,] nor do we determine the [witnesses’] credibility. Instead, we determine only whether the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State · 341 Ga. App. 409 - Hill v. the State

2. “A person commits the offense of a terroristic threat [, inter alia,] when he or she threatens to commit any crime of violence ... with the purpose of terrorizing another [.]... No person shall be convicted under this subsection on the uncorroborated testimony of the party to whom the threat is communicated.”

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