State v. Cormier’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1983
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever shall operate or attempt to operate a motor vehicle upon any way, or in any other place when intoxicated or at all under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs . . . upon conviction, shall be punished . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodchild““Evidently the intoxicated driver is to be regarded as one who should be denied wholly the right to operate a motor vehicle while in such condition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodchild““. . . while under the influence of intoxicating liquor . . ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodchild
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.