State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably State v. Baldwin (1981), Brennan v. Town of Colchester (1999)
2 district · 30 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 United States v. Harriss · County of Monmouth v. Wissell · Currier v. Letourneau · State v. Auger · Shapiro Bros. Shoe Co. v. Lewiston-Auburn Shoeworkers Protective Ass'n
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumptions are based upon scientific observations of the relationship between blood alcohol and intoxication, and they state the permissive inferences to be drawn from certain levels of alcohol. [The presumptions thus] obviate the need for expert interpretation of blood alcohol in every case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) A person shall not operate, attempt to operate, or be in actual physical control of any vehicle on a highway while: (2) under the influence of intoxicating liquor . . . . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trucott
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.