116 Wash. 2d 154 - State v. Schulze’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Pirtle (1995), State v. Copeland (1996)
56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schmerber v. State of California · Kirby v. Illinois · Carnegie v. United States · Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The regulations approve the tests only if they meet strict standards for precision, accuracy, and specificity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Any person who operates a motor vehicle within this state is deemed to have given consent, . . . to a test or tests of his or her breath or blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of his or her breath or blood if arrested for any offense where, at the time of the arrest, the arresting officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person had been driving or was in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (2) . . . The officer shall inform the person of his or her right to refuse the breath or blood test, and of his or her right to have additional tests administered by any qualified person of his or her choosing as provided in RCW 46.61.506. The officer shall warn the driver that (a) his or her privilege to drive will be revoked or denied if he or she refuses to submit to the test, and (b) that his or her refusal to take the test may be used in a criminal trial. (3) Except as provided in this section, the test administered shall be of the breath only. If an individual... is under arrest for the crime of vehicular homicide ... a breath or blood test may be administered without the consent of the individual so arrested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Analysis of the person's blood or breath to be considered valid under the provisions of this section or RCW 46.61.502 or 46.61.504 shall have been performed according to methods approved by the state toxicologist and by an individual possessing a valid permit issued by the state toxicologist for this purpose. The state toxicologist is directed to approve satisfactory techniques or methods ....”
2 later decisions 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.