State v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Vondrak v. City of Las Cruces (2008), State v. Pickett (2009)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 State v. Ogden · State v. Sisneros · State Ex Rel. Delgado v. Stanley · State v. Duran · State v. Gutierrez
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor if "as a result of drinking liquor [the driver] was less able to the slightest degree, either mentally or physically, or both, to exercise the clear judgment and steady hand necessary to handle a vehicle with safety to [the driver] and the public."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey · State v. Pickett“It is unlawful for a person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor to drive a vehicle within this state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey · State v. Pickett“[t]he test is not whether substantial evidence would support an acquittal, but whether substantial evidence supports the verdict actually rendered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.