State v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Nyflot v. Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety (1985), Friedman v. Commissioner of Public Safety (1991)
55 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Escobedo v. Illinois · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Massiah v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such access is requested and is readily available and will not interfere with investigation of the matter at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bonvie · State v. Bonvie“A sample of his breath or blood shall be taken whenever a state police officer, chief of police, or a police officer employed full-time by a town, city or incorporated village or sheriff has reasonable grounds to believe that the person was operating . . . any vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor .... (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lund“If you refuse to submit to a chemical test, it shall not be given, but such refusal may be introduced as evidence in a criminal proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brean
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.