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← 242 Ga. App. 125 - Bluain v. State

242 Ga. App. 125 - Bluain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
May 2005
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Caldwell v. State · Chapel v. State · 231 Ga. App. 793 - Ross v. State · 227 Ga. App. 5 - Howard 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The trial court did not err in admitting the results. The deficiencies argued below by Bluain, lack of national accreditation of the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation] lab by the National Association of Crime Lab Directors and failure to use the `highest standards' in testing, went to the weight of the testing results and not their admissibility.”
    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.