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← 129 SW3D 93 - Stewart v. State

Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

39 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. State · Commonwealth v. Jarman · Commonwealth v. Modaffare · Bagheri v. State · Commonwealth v. Loeper

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “couldn't do [the field sobriety tests] sober,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “because of the peculiar posture of this appeal, [Stewart] does not resolve the problem that faces trial courts: whether to admit breath-test results without extrapolation evidence. This appeal presents only half of the problem, relevancy.... [Tjhere are serious issues about the other half, weighing the relevancy value against possibly unfair prejudicial effect.”
    1 later decision 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.