135 Ga. App. 758 - Meadows v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 143 Ga. App. 169 - Johnson v. State (1977), Painter v. State (1976)
35 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser · Patterson v. State · Eisentrager v. State · 112 Ga. App. 212 - Interstate Life & Accident Insurance v. Whitlock · 2 Ariz. App. 210 - State v. Brady
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What [appellant] seeks is that the [S]tate, in order to render the evidence admissible, be required to negate all possibilities of tampering or error while the [blood] was in the [refrigerator]. This is not the law... . `The evidence shows that the blood sample was handled in the normal course of testing and there is nothing in the record that creates a suspicion that the blood tested was other than that taken from the [appellant]. The identity of such blood samples need not be proved beyond all possibility of doubt or that all possibility of tampering with them be excluded. The circumstances need only establish reasonable assurance of the identity of the sample.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is not necessary that the state negative all possibility of tampering but only that it show it is reasonably certain there was no alteration — when there is only a bare speculation of tampering, it is proper to admit the evidence and let what doubt remains go to its weight. [Cits.]” Meadows v. State, 135 Ga. App. 758, 760 ( 219 SE2d 174 ). See also Braden v. State, 135 Ga. App. 827 (4) ( 219 SE2d 479 ). As to the remaining exhibits, the rule is that”
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.