State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Smith (2004), State v. Rivera (2003)
3 district · 123 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · United States v. Lanier · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State v. Rowell · State v. Wilson
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policy underlying the DWI statute is to “prevent individuals from driving or exercising actual physical control over a vehicle when they, either mentally or physically, or both, are unable to exercise the clear judgment and steady hand necessary to handle a vehicle with safety both to themselves and the public.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sims · State v. Sims“the State may charge a person who is in actual physical control of a non-moving vehicle with DWI despite the fact that he or she is on private property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sims · State v. Heapy“To conclude that the term “drives” is coextensive with the statutory definition of “driver” and thus includes all situations where a driver is in actual physical control of a vehicle seems to me to require something more than the statutory analysis we performed in Boone. Perhaps we should never have equated the two terms and instead should have restricted our remarks to stating that the seriousness of the DWI problem in our state justified equating the two terms, but that such a task “requires legislative therapy, not judicial surgery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sims
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.