301 Ga. App. 844 - McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Suggs v. State · Conaway v. State · Bankston v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the defendant offers an explanation of circumstantial facts or an alternative hypothesis of events, the reasonableness of that explanation is for the factfinder. Because the factfinder has heard the witnesses and observed them testify, it is considered more capable of determining the reasonableness of the hypothesis produced by the evidence or lack thereof than is an appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newby v. the State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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