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← 309 Ga. App. 462 - Alvarez v. State

309 Ga. App. 462 - Alvarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · Towry v. State · Burden 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To obtain admission of similar transaction evidence, the State must show (1) that it seeks to introduce the evidence for a proper purpose; (2) that there is sufficient evidence that the accused committed the independent offense or act; and (3) that sufficient similarity exists between the independent offense or act and the crime charged so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.