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← 261 GAAPP 348 - Lancaster v. State

Lancaster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2014
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 184 Ga. App. 853 - Tarwid v. State · 239 Ga. App. 340 - State v. Blair · 223 Ga. App. 176 - Jordan v. State · 249 Ga. App. 811 - State v. Hammang · 221 Ga. App. 43 - McDaniel 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[ejvery brake light shall be plainly visible and understandable from a distance of 300 feet to the rear both during normal sunlight and at nighttime, and .. . [w]hen a vehicle is equipped with a brake light or other signal lights, such light or lights shall at all times be maintained in good working condition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]f the officer acting in good faith believes that an unlawful act has been committed, his actions are not rendered improper by a later legal determination that the defendant’s actions were not a crime according to a technical legal definition or distinction determined to exist in the penal statute.”
    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.