State v. Hessen’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Pennington (1998), Scott v. COM., BUREAU OF DRIVER LICENSING (2002)
29 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 Pledger v. Medlock · Kulalani Ltd. v. Corey · Kelly v. Gwinnell · Renne v. Geary · State v. Leonardis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) Operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotic, hallucinogenic or habit-producing drug; 2) Operating a vehicle with a BAC of .10 percent or greater; 3) Permitting another person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotic, hallucinogenic or habit-producing drug to operate a car owned by him or in his custody or control; and 4) Permitting another person with a BAC of .10 percent or greater to operate a car owned by him or in his custody or control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plea bargaining is not a right of a defendant or the prosecution. It is an accommodation which the judiciary system is free to institute or reject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“commitment to eliminating intoxicated drivers from our highways ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.