298 Ga. App. 699 - Brower v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2020
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Garza v. State · Butler v. State · Tarvestad v. State · Davis v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“in determining whether the movement in question is in the nature of the evil the kidnapping statute was originally intended to address — i.e., movement serving to substantially isolate the victim from protection or rescue — or merely a criminologically insignificant circumstance attendant to some other crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] premise underlying all the defenses specified in OCGA § 16-3-20 is that the defendant faced circumstances created by external events that demanded prompt, if not immediate, action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Robbie] Brower and [the appellant] entered the law office of the lawyer who had represented him in a previous criminal case and who [Robbie] Brower claims was guilty of “gross misfeasance” in handling his case. They first encountered three female members of the office staff. The receptionist was standing in the doorway of the legal assistant’s office when she heard the office door open, but before she could turn to see who it was, someone grabbed her jacket, asked where the attorney was, and when she told him, pushed her to the very last office where the attorney was working. When they got to the office, [Robbie Brower] had her sit in a chair inside the office door. At that point [Robbie Brower] complained that the attorney had ruined his life and he had waited 11 years for revenge. The attorney offered to pay [Robbie] Brower, but [Robbie] Brower said no, that he wanted revenge. [Robbie] Brower ordered the attorney to go stand in a corner, and when the attorney kept turning around, [he] told [the appellant] to put duct tape over the attorney’s mouth, and she also taped his hands. The legal assistant heard someone tell the receptionist to go to the back, and then [the appellant] entered the legal assistant’s office and told her to go to the back of the office. When she did not comply immediately, [the appellant] grabbed the legal assistant by the arm “real hard,” and said, “You better go to the back before I push you.” [The appellant] had a wrapped-up package with her that th”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brower v. State
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