Vines v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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“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“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.