Blige v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 226 Ga. App. 714 - McClain v. State (1997), Rower v. State (1994)
26 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 Johnson v. State · Sabel v. State · 113 Ga. App. 491 - Logan v. Chatham County · State v. Braddy · 205 Ga. App. 133 - Blige 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant does not call the expert as a witness, the [Sjtate may call the defendant’s ... [witness] without adding his or her name to the list of witnesses, or may argue to the jury that the defendant would have called the expert had the result of the testing been favorable to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence which goes to a witness' credibility is not relevant unless produced to attack the credibility of a witness, or to rehabilitate credibility when it has been attacked”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must not be read in a vacuum, but in the context of other rules relating to witnesses and evidence.”
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.