485 So. 2d 1217 - Blanco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2002
12 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 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State · 346 So. 2d 1177 - Sexton v. State · United States v. Clark · 346 So. 2d 1180 - Ex Parte Sexton · 409 So. 2d 475 - Congo 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In reviewing the sufficiency of the chain of custody in drug cases, this court has stated that `the law is concerned with tracing the integrity of the substance only up through the completion of the analysis.' Congo v. State, 409 So.2d 475, 479 (Ala.Cr.App.1982). Likewise, we are concerned here with establishing the integrity of the evidence up through the fingerprint analysis and comparison."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the ideal practice would be for one person to maintain exclusive and constant control of the [evidence], these rules are made for practical people who deal with such evidence as part of day to day routine. The chain of custody requirements aim at a 'reasonable probability' that there has been no tampering; they are not intended as an obstacle course or a walk through a legalistic mine field.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moorman v. State · Smith v. State“An alteration or substitution of the items after [the expert] finished [his] analysis and comparison would, therefore, have been immaterial.”
2 later decisions 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.