State v. Comeaux’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Erdman v. State (1993), State v. Johnson (1996)
29 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 Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Schmerber v. State of California
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ommon sense dictates, in this age of blood testing for everything from HIV infection to drug use, that a person does not assume that, by giving a sample of blood for private testing, that blood sample could then be submitted to the State, or to any other person or entity, for a purpose other than that for which it was given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“No evidence obtained by an officer or other person in violation of any provisions of the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas, or of the Constitution or laws of the United States of America, shall be admitted in evidence against the accused on the trial of any criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hurd“Id. Likewise, we find Comeaux persuasive. Martinez does not complain of the taking of his blood by hospital personnel, nor could he, “[T]he Fourth Amendment does not apply to a search or seizure, even”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.