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← 320 GAAPP 408 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Drinkard v. Walker · Ledford v. State · 297 Ga. App. 330 - Metts v. State · 279 Ga. App. 819 - Keith v. State · 300 Ga. App. 505 - Flewelling 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The testimony of a victim of child molestation ... need not be corroborated.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A person commits the offense of child molestation when such person ... [d]oes any immoral or indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 16 years with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the person[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “used by witnesses to describe criminal acts may be considered in context to provide meaning, and jurors can be presumed to have some knowledge of slang expressions in common parlance in the vernacular.”
    1 later decision 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.