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← 346 Ga. App. 351 - GARNER v. the STATE.

346 Ga. App. 351 - GARNER v. the STATE.’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State · 239 Ga. App. 52 - Buice v. State · Peoples 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he quantum of corroboration needed in a statutory-rape case is not that which is in itself sufficient to convict the accused, but only that amount of independent evidence which tends to prove that the incident occurred as alleged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Slight circumstances may be sufficient corroboration [in a statutory rape case], and ultimately the question of corroboration is one for the jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Generally, the character of the defendant should not come into evidence unless he chooses to put his character in issue[.]”
    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.