312 Ga. App. 252 - Able v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] jury charge on deliberate ignorance or wilful blindness is appropriate when the facts support the inference that the defendant was aware of a high probability of the existence of the fact in question and purposely contrived to avoid learning all of the facts in order to have a defense in the event of a subsequent prosecution.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Camacho v. the State · Lowery v. State

2. “In order to support a conviction, such circumstantial evidence does not have to exclude every possible hypothesis other than the defendant’s guilt, but only reasonable hypotheses. Whether a hypothesis is reasonable is a question for the jury, and such finding will not be disturbed on appeal unless the guilty verdict is insupportable as a matter of law.”

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

3. “we conclude that there was sufficient evidence from which the jury could find that [Clowers] had the requisite knowledge and intent to assist with or participate in the crime and that he was, therefore, guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute [and the sale of marijuana]. 9”

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