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← 244 Ga. 871 - Cargile v. State

Cargile v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Lattarulo v. State (1991), Commonwealth v. Connolly (1985)

31 state decisions

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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 Strauss v. Stynchcombe · Herring v. State · Johnston v. State · Cook v. State · 116 Ga. App. 140 - Hutto 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “because subsequent subsections set forth the additional criteria , 'to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the phrase 'driving under the influence of alcohol' has a universally recognized and understood meaning so that reasonable persons could not differ as to its interpretation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “when it appears that it is less safe for such person to operate a motor vehicle than it would be if he were not so affected.”
    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.