Paul v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. State · Patel v. State · Durden v. State · 227 Ga. App. 576 - Godfrey v. State · 271 Ga. App. 797 - Fennell 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the offense of burglary in the second degree when, [1] without authority and [2] with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein, he or she [3] enters or remains within an occupied, unoccupied, or vacant building, [or] structure. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mistake of fact represents an affirmative defense, under which a person shall not be found guilty of a crime if the act constituting the crime was induced by a misapprehension of fact which, if true, would have justified the act or omission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]ailure to give a charge on mistake of fact is not error where the evidence shows that a party has made a mistake of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LAW v. the STATE.
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.