State v. Willette’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. “The jury could have reasonably inferred that only someone with impaired judgment would have left a car, admittedly moveable, in a traveled portion of the interstate highway without warning lights. Given the intoxicated state of the defendant when the police found him, his obviously impaired judgment in leaving the car where he did, and his admission that he was the driver, the jury could have concluded that the defendant was intoxicated at the time he drove the car to the location where it was found.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Anderson

2. “permit the jury to infer that the intoxicated condition of the defendant was continuous from the time of operation until the time he was discovered by the police.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Anderson

3. “an unintoxicated person could also have had such an accident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Anderson