State v. De Bery’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Ordinarily, men who are perfectly sober and who have had no intoxicating liquor whatever to drink do not proceed to get drunk at the scene of an accident while waiting for someone to get their vehicle back into the highway. It is a natural and logical inference and one entirely consistent with fact that the driver of a vehicle stuck ... outside the wrought part of the highway who is found ... in a drunken condition was under the influence of intoxicating liquor while operating the vehicle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hayes