Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Olevik v. State (2017), Cooper v. State (2003)
29 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 Schmerber v. State of California · South Dakota v. Neville · Perano v. State · Strong v. State · 169 Ga. App. 246 - Wessels 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(OCGA § 40-5-55) thus grants a suspect an opportunity, not afforded him by our constitution, to refuse to take a blood-alcohol test.' (Emphasis supplied.) Allen v. State, 254 Ga. 433, 434 (1)(a), 330 S.E.2d 588 (1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n Georgia, the state may constitutionally take a blood sample from a defendant without his consent”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. State“OCGA § 40-6-392 and OCGA § 40-5-55 grant, rather than deny, a right to a defendant.”
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.