Weaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Pyle v. State (1993), Isbell v. State (1996)
27 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 Parker v. State · Newton v. Clark · Edgemon v. State · Watson v. Frierson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3.20 Sample Collection: Blood samples may be collected from living individuals only by persons authorized by law and by means of a sterile, dry syringe and hypodermic needle or other sterile equipment. The skin at the area of puncture shall be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected with an aqueous solution of non-volatile antiseptic such as benzalkonium chloride (zephiran). Alcohol or other vola- tile organic disinfectant solutions shall not be used as a skin antiseptic or to clear hypodermic needles, syringes or containers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tallant v. State · Mosley v. State“Subject to constitutional limitations, the prosecuting attorney shall, upon request, be informed as soon as practicable before trial of the nature of any defense which defense counsel intends to use at trial and the names and addresses of persons whom defense counsel intends to call as witnesses in support thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State · Hoyle v. State
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.