Isom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2003
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 Thomas v. State · State v. Zavala · State v. Sanford · Rogers v. State · Bullock v. Dept. of Motor Vehicles
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.
“addresses the problem of the drinker who, while operating a vehicle, realizes that his driving ability is impaired”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Votava“provides incentive for intoxicated motorists to pull safely off the highway without fear of being arrested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Votava
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.