310 Ga. App. 48 - Scales v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he burden is unquestionably upon the State to prove that a crime occurred within the statute of limitation, or, if an exception to the statute is alleged, to prove that the case properly falls within the exception. Thus, although the statute of limitation is not an element of the crime, per se, in a prosecution, where an exception is relied upon to prevent the bar of the statute of limitation, it must be alleged and proved .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Terrence Terrell Beavers v. State

2. “[G]iven the juror's expressions of bias in favor of [the defendant] and against police officers, [the defendant] failed to show that the trial court abused its discretion in striking the juror for cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. HARRIS v. the STATE.