State v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2009
9 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 State v. Decker · State v. Campbell · State v. Ghylin · Matter of Clayton · State v. Hartwig
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(l)(a) It is unlawful for any person who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances, or who has an alcohol concentration of 0.08, ... or more, as shown by analysis of his blood, urine, or breath, to drive or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle within this state, whether upon a highway, street or bridge, or upon public or private property open to the public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woolf · State v. Ferreira“Cheney was found asleep while sitting upright in the driver's seat of his vehicle. His head was resting on his chest. The lights of automobile were on and the motor was running. Cheney argued that the vehicle was inoperable at the time of his arrest due to a loss of transmission fluid. This Court found that the evidence did not support Cheney's contention and therefore did not address the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woolf“the purpose of [the DUI statute] is not only to deter individuals who have been drinking from actually driving their vehicles, but also to deter them from exercising any control over their vehicles while in an intoxicated state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Loader
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.