309 Ga. App. 454 - Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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

1. “[a] trial judge is uniquely positioned to evaluate whether a prospective juror can render an impartial verdict, considering that the trial judge ... can observe a prospective juror in person and take account of her demeanor and countenance, not just the words that she speaks.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edenfield v. State · Futch v. State

2. “Because the trafficking conviction in this case is based on the possession of a cocaine mixture that weighed far more than 28 grams, and because the evidence was overwhelming that [Griffin] had enough experience handling cocaine to know that the cocaine . . . which, the jury evidently believed, was in his possession — weighed more than 28 grams,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 331 Ga. App. 550 - Griffin v. the State

3. “The trial court may not have used the precise words that [the defendant] preferred, but even if [the defendant] is right about the plain meaning of OCGA § 16-13-31 (a) (1), the charge accurately and fully apprised the jury of the applicable law, and the failure of the trial court to give the requested instruction is not error.”

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