204 Ga. App. 156 - State v. Luster’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Reinesto v. Superior Court (1995), State v. Martinez (2006)
25 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 United States v. Harriss · Knight v. State · In Re Irvin · 173 Ga. App. 594 - Curlee v. Mock Enterprises, Inc. · Earth Management, Inc. v. Heard County
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Statutes should be read according to the natural and most obvious import of the language, without resorting to subtle and forced constructions, for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation, [cit.], and this principle is particularly compelling when interpreting criminal statutes. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“the word `person' in a criminal statute may not be construed to include a fetus unless the legislature has expressly included it, since at common law a fetus was not considered a person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“criminal statutes must be strictly construed against the state and liberally in favor of human liberty.”
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.