State v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State v. Holmquist (1977), Doe v. Doe (1998)
84 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 Hayward v. Plant · State v. Storrs · Stroud v. Board of Water Commissioners · Commonwealth v. Uski · Commonwealth v. Henry
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statute [in question] refers to persons who shall operate a motor vehicle, and is not confined to persons who shall drive a motor vehicle. A person operates a motor vehicle within the meaning of this statute, when in the vehicle he intentionally does any act or makes use of any mechanical or electrical agency which alone or in sequence will set in motion the motive power of the vehicle. So if you find that the accused, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, got into the automobile, while it was standing [at the] side of the street, and manipulated the machinery of the motor for the purpose of putting the automobile into motion, the accused being in the car and in a position to control its movements, the accused would be guilty of operating a car under the influence of intoxicating liquor, whether the automobile moved or not." State v. Swift, 125 Conn. 399 , 402-403 (1939).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of any request to charge, the definition with its limitation was adequate for the guidance of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ferrenti“whether the car or its engine could be operated.”
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.