Worthen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a challenge to the sufficiency of the venue evidence just like we review a challenge to the evidence of [delinquency]: we view the evidence in a light most favorable to support the [adjudication] and determine whether the evidence was sufficient to permit a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the [alleged delinquent acts occurred] in the county where the [juvenile was charged].”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 638 - In the Interest of A.P., a Child · 348 Ga. App. 634 - Scott v. State

2. “jurors are entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence based on their own common-sense understanding of the world .... As a general rule, jurors are authorized to make such reasonable inferences and reasonable deductions as ordinarily prudent persons would make in light of their everyday experience and knowledge of human conduct and behavior.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. McKie v. State

3. “[j]urors are normally entitled to make reasonable inferences from circumstantial evidence regarding all sorts of facts, including the facts necessary to find defendants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of [a crime].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 349 Ga. App. 277 - NIXON v. the STATE.