343 Ga. App. 526 - RODRIGUEZ v. the STATE.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. “[U]nder the uniform rule of strict construction, a penal statute can not be expanded by implication to include conduct or persons not explicitly identified in the statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. PROPES v. the STATE. · 348 Ga. App. 467 - The State v. Rich.

2. “A person who is an HIV infected person who, after obtaining knowledge of being infected with HIV[,] ... [k]nowingly engages in sexual intercourse ... and the HIV infected person does not disclose to the other person the fact of that infected person's being an HIV infected person prior to that intercourse ... is guilty of a felony[. 2 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. PROPES v. the STATE.

3. “When an appellate court reviews the sufficiency of the evidence, the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. PROPES v. the STATE.