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← 269 Ga. 438 - Vines v. State

Vines v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

57
cited by 57 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Diaz-Ibarra (2008), 243 Ga. App. 868 - Dennard v. State (2000)

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Barnes v. State · Roe v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company · Gearinger v. Lee · State v. Crane · Huntsinger 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[f]or purposes of statutory interpretation, a specific statute will prevail over a general statute, absent any indication of a contrary legislative intent.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Thus, even if the State's broad construction were reasonable despite the lack of any supporting authority, the contrary strict construction of OCGA § [16-6-5.1 (b) (1) ] nevertheless must be accepted because it is at least equally reasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, the interpretation most favorable to the party facing criminal liability must be adopted.”
    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.