State v. Vega’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Tanner (1984), City of Columbus v. Taylor (1988)
3 federal appellate · 194 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 City of Westerville v. Cunningham · State v. Myers · City of Cincinnati v. Sand · 2 Ohio App. 3d 227 - State v. Brockway · Melling v. Stralka
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an accused may not make a general attack upon the reliability and validity of the breath testing instrument.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An accused may not use expert testimony to attack the general reliability of intoxilyzers as valid, reliable breath-testing machines, in view of the fact that the General Assembly has legislatively provided for the admission of such tests if analyzed in accordance with methods approved by the Director of Health.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no question that the accused may also attack the reliability of the specific testing procedure and the qualifications of the operator. Defense expert testimony as to testing procedures at trial going to weight rather than admissibility is allowed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.