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← 155 Ga. App. 235 - Blassingame v. State

155 Ga. App. 235 - Blassingame v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2009
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gentry v. State · Yates v. Brown · Madden v. State · 145 Ga. App. 36 - Golden v. State · 151 Ga. App. 806 - Powers 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As defendant has escaped and remains without the lawful custody and control of the authorities of this state, this case has become moot. Therefore, the motion to dismiss defendant’s appeal must be granted. [Cits.] The public policy of this state is to deter escapes.”
    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.