Petro v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the required evidence test, neither offense is included in the other if each statutory provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not. Consequently, when each of two statutes requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or conviction under one statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecution and punishment under the other, even though the charges are based on a single act.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Epperson v. the State · 332 Ga. App. 309 - Gipson v. the State

2. “A person may be found guilty of aggravated assault if the State proves (1) an assault and (2) aggravation by use of any object, device, or instrument which, when used offensively against a person, is likely to or actually does result in serious bodily injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 190 - The State v. Wilkerson.

3. “The State may prove an assault by showing that the defendant attempt[ed] to commit a violent injury to the person of another or commit[ed] an act which place[d] another in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury. OCGA § 16-5-20 (a).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 190 - The State v. Wilkerson.