82 Ga. App. 608 - Waters v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although a witness in a case may be discredited by showing his conviction of an offense involving moral turpitude, he may not be discredited by showing merely that he was charged and tried for such offense, since ‘until there is proof of conviction he is protected by the legal presumption of innocence.’ . . . The same rule applies where a defendant on trial for a criminal offense is sought to be connected with other criminal transactions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reynolds

2. “Although evidence of another crime may sometimes be admissible in a criminal prosecution, as where its purpose is to show motive, scheme, or intent, or a system of mutually dependent crimes, or it bears upon the question of identity of the accused or articles connected with the offense ... to be admissible, it must be legal evidence that the crime was committed, and the mere indictment furnishes no such evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McBride