State v. Wenger’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2010
16 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. Sutphin · State v. Rowell · Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp. · High Ridge Hinkle Joint Venture v. City of Albuquerque · Fernandez v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is "operating" a motor vehicle if the person is: [driving the motor vehicle;] [or] [in actual physical control whether or not the vehicle is moving if the vehicle is on a highway;] [or] [exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle;] [or] [in actual physical control of an off-highway motor vehicle].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“"driver" means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle, including a motorcycle, upon a highway, who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle or who operates or is in actual physical control of an off-highway motor vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“when a DWI charge is based on `actual physical control' rather than `driving,' that offense must take place on a highway as defined by the Motor Vehicle Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.