Willie Andrew Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miller v. State · 85 Ga. App. 119 - Anthony v. State · Zilinmon v. State · 271 Ga. App. 898 - State v. Ellison
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the proved facts are not only consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but exclude every other reasonable hypothesis but the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exclude every other reasonable hypothesis but the defendant's guilt, the evidence need not exclude every inference or hypothesis.”
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.