State v. Wyrostek’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Schmerber v. State of California · 6 Cal. 3d 757 - People v. Superior Court · 64 Wis. 2d 485 - Scales v. State · State v. Trujillo · Boone 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal rule of statutory construction is that there is no need to construe an unambiguous statute. Instead, the reviewing court will give a literal meaning to such a statute to give effect to its plain meaning. However, a court will not give a statute a literal reading when to do so leads to absurd or unreasonable results * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ortega“Any person who is dead, unconscious or otherwise in a condition rendering him incapable of refusal, shall be deemed not to have withdrawn the consent provided by Section 66-8-107 NMSA 1978, and the test or tests designated by the law enforcement officer may be administered.”
1 later decision 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.